A meme circulated on social media that claimed Dr. Anthony Fauci, who leads the U.S. COVID-19 response and has become a bogeyman for pandemic conspiracy theorists, was the real-life model for the villain in the 2013 movie, “Dallas Buyers Club.”
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“Remember the movie ‘Dallas Buyers Club’ about a group of AIDS patients fighting for the right to use cheap, effective drugs against government bureaucrats in the pocket of Big Pharm? The bad guy was Dr. Anthony Fauci.” Various aspects of the movie’s script don’t align with the claim that the villain in the film was modeled after Fauci, and we couldn’t find any public statements made by anyone involved with the film indicating that the antagonist was modeled after him.
The antagonist in the film is an FDA investigator, which is not an equivalent position to the one Fauci held at the time the events portrayed in the film took place.public health figure during the HIV/AIDS epidemic, but he wasn’t an FDA agent. He spent his career at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases , becoming that agency’s director in 1984, one year before the events in the film.
Furthermore, Woodroof’s issues with the FDA largely stemmed from “his reluctance to stop using harmful treatments.”
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