On Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast Ep 628, at 54:24.84 "He was looking for a cure to Fauci's disease."

The claim riding inside that possessive — AIDS is attributable to Anthony Fauci — is false. Truth score 0.03, confidence 0.92.

Nobody on the episode argues it. It's a two-word noun phrase dropped into an argument about whether "November Rain" beats "Enter Sandman." That's what makes it worth an episode: the claim has stopped being asserted. There is no proposition left for a correction to attach to.

The timeline forecloses it. HIV-1 group M began circulating in humans in Kinshasa around 1920. Fauci was born in 1940. The retrovirus was isolated at the Institut Pasteur and published in Science on 20 May 1983. Fauci became NIAID director in 1984 — after the syndrome was described and after its viral cause was identified.

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