Navarro's laughable claim that he knows better than Fauci

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/06/opinions/peter-navarro-anthony-fauci-hydroxychloroquine-expertise-hemmer/index.html

(CNN)Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), has yet to embrace hydroxychloroquine, the drug the President touts, without evidence, as a miracle treatment for Covid-19.

 

But someone in the administration has stepped up to promote the drug: Peter Navarro.

 

Navarro may seem like an odd person to be stepping into this role. Unlike Fauci, an infectious disease specialist who has directed NIAID under six presidents, Navarro is an economist. His principal role in the White House is to oversee trade policy.

But Navarro is ready to put his credentials up against Fauci's any day. As he told CNN on Monday: "My qualifications in terms of looking at the science is that I'm a social scientist. I have a PhD. And I understand how to read statistical studies, whether it's in medicine, the law, economics or whatever."

While that's more expertise than President Trump claims -- "I'm not a doctor, but I have common sense," Trump said while promoting the drug on Sunday -- it's a specious claim to expertise, one that fits in well with the administration's long-running war against experts.