Does a video back up its claim that Dr. Anthony Fauci had a Nobel laureate chemist murdered to silence him?

The claim is made in a headline on a video that offers no physical or documentary evidence and with one piece of circumstantial evidence that scarcely deserves that label. The four-minute, 18-second video never makes the murder claim outright. Instead, the narrator hints at it near the end.

Unchallenged obituaries for the chemist, Kary Mullis, say he died in 2019 of pneumonia at age 74.

There is no public record to suggest Mullis was murdered by anyone.

The video describes Mullis' harsh criticisms of Fauci's advocacy for treatment of HIV/AIDS with AZT, using clips taken from various recordings of Mullis, who developed a reputation as a provocative lecturer in his later years.

Mullis' invention of the DNA test now known as PCR made him a critic of Fauci's work in the battle against AIDS, which relied in part on DNA testing.