Unlike NIH principal deputy director Tabak and now-NIAID director Dr. Hugh Auchincloss, Fauci denied that the risky experiments took place under the “operative definition” of the term.

But Auchincloss may have a conflict of interest: his parents. Auchincloss’s father, Hugh Auchincloss, was an aide to National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci ...

He is also the son of Hugh Auchincloss, who briefly served as acting director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases after Anthony Fauci resigned, and is distantly related to ...