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July 14, 2026
Stop the witch-hunts against America’s leading scientists
Write Congress TODAY!
Scientific research and evidence-based public health are under attack by the Trump administration and its allies in Congress. The attacks on science and public health are well-documented. However, the Administration and its allies in Congress have not stopped at cutting budgets, terminating grants, eviscerating agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health. They are waging a war on individual scientists, through public harassment, arrests, criminal indictment, and ongoing threats of prosecution.
The list of scientists under fire by the Administration and its allies in Congress includes climatologist Katherin Heyhoe, former NIH Director Francis Collins, pediatrician Peter Hotez and epidemiologist Ralph Baric. However, the most prominent target of the Administration and its allies is Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, now retired. The charges against Dr. Fauci are baseless, suggesting he covered up the origins of the COVID, that he bribed or persuaded other scientists to join his coverup, that NIAID funded research sparked the pandemic, that he personally holds patents on the virus, that he’s working with intelligence agencies to suppress the true story of the pandemic. No credible evidence has been produced to support these absurd charges. These conspiracy theories have led to a five-year period of harassment and threats of violence directed at Dr. Fauci and his family. Politicians who have led this vilification have used all this to raise money for their own campaigns. Now, this month, he is being subpoenaed by Congress once again.
It is time for all of us to step up and defend scientists as well as science itself. As the Congressional hearings targeting Dr. Fauci approach, we are asking all DPH members, scientists and clinicians, those who have benefited from the work of dedicated researchers like Dr. Fauci to write to members of Congress TODAY. It is time to stand-up for our scientists and say no to these witch-hunts.
