White House Chief Medical Advisor Anthony Fauci said Sunday that he has become such a polarizing figure during the coronavirus pandemic because he is an advocate for the “truth” rather than “conspiracy theories.”

“I have stood for always making science data and evidence be what we guide ourselves by,” Fauci told “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace. “And I think people who feel differently, who have conspiracy theories, who deny reality, that’s looking them straight in the eye.”

“Those are people that don’t particularly care for me, and that’s understandable because what I do, and I try very hard, is to be guided by the truth,” he continued. “And sometimes the truth becomes inconvenient for some people, so they react against me.”

Fauci added that typically he is “not comfortable” telling people what they do “under normal circumstances.” However, he says that “we are not in normal circumstances.”