Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Bucks Xt and Show Podcast.

Welcome to our number two Clay Travis Bucks Xt and Show.

Appreciate all of you hanging out with us as we roll through a holiday week edition Monday show.

We are joined now by Dr. Scott Atlas. He is a senior fellow in health policy at Stan

for University's Hoover Institution, former advisor on COVID to the president and author of

the new book, A Playup on our House, My Fight to Stop COVID from destroying America. Dr.

Atlas, appreciate the time that you are spending with us. Let's dive right into it.

How much of a disaster has Dr. Fauci been for America in terms of the advice that he has given

over the last 18 months based on your experience? Well, thanks for having me. You know,

I think this is something people have to understand that they have to be critical thinkers about

what is said because the advice from the doctors on the task force to six months before I got there,

the three and a half months I was there and following that has been inconsistent erratic

anti-science contrary to the science and they simply lack critical thinking. Now the head of

the task force is actually with Dr. Burke, who is the medical task force coordinator, who

divide wrote all the policy advice to the states. She visited dozens of states. She spoke to all

the local health officials. Dr. Fauci was not in charge, but he was the most influential figure

on the media to the American public. And what I saw in the task force was shocking and that's

one of the reasons I wrote the book because we have to be aware that we can never let these kinds

of people be in charge again. There were not critical thinkers. They both been in government

bureaucrat positions for 40 years. I came in as a health policy scholar, 15 years of health policy

work, and 25 years of medical science research, clinical work, in some of the best medical centers.

And so what I would do to the meetings, I would bring in a dozen, 20 different scientific publications

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