Well, would you look at that — the bureaucratic belt-tightening finally caught up to Christine Grady, the long-serving NIH bioethicist who also just so happens to be married to none other than Dr. Anthony “Trust The Science” Fauci. According to reports, Grady was among several senior health officials handed pink slips as part of a long-overdue shake-up at the Department of Health and Human Services. And not just any shake-up — this one spearheaded by none other than HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who appears determined to blow up the old pandemic playbook and start fresh. Cue the violins for the D.C. health elite.
Now, for those unfamiliar, Grady was head of bioethics at the NIH — yes, that means she was supposed to be the person asking the tough moral questions while her husband was starring in every cable news slot and guiding national health policy with all the humility of a Roman emperor. The same Christine Grady who, while occupying that position, somehow didn’t manage to raise any red flags as her husband’s agency worked closely with groups like EcoHealth Alliance, dabbled in risky virology research, and shut down dissent faster than a Twitter post flagged for “misinformation.”
During the pandemic Fauci’s bioethicist wife, Christine Grady, offered nurses a choice: Get vaccinated, or lose your job.
Yesterday, she was offered a choice: Transfer to an office in Alaska, or lose your job.
What’s fair is fair. Everyone deserves a choice. pic.twitter.com/TG55yICr1I
— The COVID-19 History Project (@ThisDayinCovid) April 2, 2025
What’s especially rich is that insiders are now admitting what many conservatives were screaming for years: her role was compromised. One NIH official even said, in no uncertain terms, “She was a good person with a major conflict of interest.” That’s Washington-speak for: “We all knew this was shady, but nobody wanted to say it out loud.” And lo and behold, the Wuhan lab leak controversy — the one labeled a conspiracy theory until it wasn’t — apparently wasn’t getting the ethical scrutiny it deserved because the ethics chair had a personal stake in not asking the hard questions.
And let’s not forget the money. The Fauci-Grady household saw its net worth soar from $7.6 million to $11.5 million during the pandemic. Funny how a “public service” gig in Washington seems to be the one surefire way to outpace the S&P 500. We’re not saying anything illegal happened — but if we’re playing the ethics game, it certainly doesn’t look great when the people tasked with public trust are getting richer while the rest of the country is stockpiling toilet paper and watching their small businesses go up in flames.
NEW — Anthony Fauci’s wife, Christine Grady, has been fired from the NIH (NYT) pic.twitter.com/rRxdzwjEUl
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) April 2, 2025
Of course, Grady’s not alone in this bureaucratic bloodletting. Other longtime Fauci lieutenants were also given the boot, including Clifford Lane and Emily Erbelding — names most Americans have never heard but who were right there in the email chains and conference calls when discussions about Wuhan and risky research were going on. These weren’t paper-pushers. These were high-level officials neck-deep in the decisions that shaped pandemic policy, many of which still haven’t been properly scrutinized.
BREAKING: Dr. Christine Grady, Dr. Anthony Fauci’s wife and Chief of the Department of Bioethics at the NIH Clinical Center, has been fired from her position along with other agency officials.
Good, this should have happened a long time ago! pic.twitter.com/AT2tYCHTdo
— I Meme Therefore I Am (@ImMeme0) April 2, 2025
The bottom line here is simple: the pandemic-era NIH, once draped in a shroud of scientific nobility, is now being exposed as an incestuous web of conflicts, cover-ups, and cushy connections. And while it’s satisfying to see a few heads finally roll, it’s also maddening that it took this long. For years, questioning these people’s judgment or motives got you labeled a crank. Now, it turns out the “cranks” were just reading the room a little more clearly.
So farewell to Christine Grady — may her next gig include fewer ethical entanglements and less Beltway insulation. And to the rest of the pandemic power brokers still clinging to relevance, consider this your warning shot. The days of unaccountable science czars and behind-the-scenes power couples might just be coming to an end. Finally.
