Quantifying Fauci's Narcissism
Fauci's Diary Entries, Visualized
I tend not to believe the worst about people unless I have reason to. For the last five years, I have mostly ignored the vilification of Tony Fauci. Yes, it was obvious that he was a figurehead rather than a practicing scientist, and that he was dishonest. What else can you expect from a career government bureaucrat? I wrote it off as him being an easy target for people's frustration with failed policies and all the unnecessary harm we imposed. After reading and analyzing Fauci's diary, I was completely wrong. The diaries reveal a true self-obsession with his own media image, a complete dedication to narrative control and political operations, and a total lack of interest and cognitive energy for actual science.
Many revelations have come out that highlight the glaring inconsistencies in his own claims: his bragging about helping shut down schools and promoting lockdowns, and his disgust for Ron DeSantis and others who dared defy “the science.” Thanks to Senator Rand Paul, the treasure trove can be found here: https://www.paul.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/2026.07.24_Tonys-Diary-Package.pdf
Despite the PTSD that all of these revelations bring up, and instead of adding more deserved critical commentary to the noise around them, I have undertaken a natural language processing analysis of the text of Fauci’s diary entries.
My goal was to turn this 1,100-page trove of Anthony Fauci’s daily pandemic-era journal entries into something you can actually measure. After extracting the text and breaking it into roughly 575 individual dated entries, I used a range of natural language models and language-analysis techniques to find the patterns in all that writing. I mapped his most common themes — letting the software discover them rather than guessing in advance — and sorted every entry into plain-English categories like “media and press,” “vaccines,” and “politics.” I then added a psychological read of the writing, scoring each entry for emotional tone and for the balance between seeking validation and airing grievances. Finally, I charted it all over time, so that instead of impressions I get a quantified portrait of what was on his mind, how he felt, and how that shifted across the most scrutinized stretch of his career.
