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CVS COVID-19 Vaccine Near Ashburn VA
www.cvs.comPharmacy LocationBy appointment only44835 Russel Branch Parkway(571) 223-000623684 Strickland Drive(571) 367-603921170 Ashby Ponds Blvd(571) 293-716943930 Farmwell Hunt Plaza(703) 724-7582Oct 5, 2023 · Vaccine Scientist Warns Antiscience Conspiracies Have Become a Deadly, Organized Movement. Vaccinologist Peter Hotez explains how the movement to oppose science and scientists has gained...
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- Anti-science rhetoric is not new. What’s changed?
- How did you see this play out during the COVID-19 pandemic?
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The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist’s Warning Peter Hotez Johns Hopkins Univ. Press (2023)
For his work developing low-cost COVID-19 vaccines, Peter Hotez was nominated for the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize. But for speaking out against anti-vaccine misinformation, he has become a prominent target of harassment, receiving death threats and having stalkers appear at his home on Father’s Day.
Nature spoke to the physician-scientist — who is dean of the School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, and chair of Tropical Pediatrics at Texas Children’s Hospital — about his book The Deadly Rise of Anti-science. He also discusses why he finds the current crop of well-funded anti-science aggression concerning and how researchers and others must combat it.
Misinformation makes it sound like it’s random junk that appears out of nowhere on the Internet. It’s not: it’s an organized, well-financed, politically motivated campaign that’s meant to tear down the fabric of science. And we have to frame it in that way.
Now, it’s fully embraced by a major political party in the United States, and by authoritarian regimes in other countries such as Hungary and, previously, Brazil. It’s sanctioned by elected leaders in the US Congress. It’s reached a new level of organization and aggression — it’s starting to resemble the 1930s, when Joseph Stalin’s regime in the Soviet Union portrayed scientists as enemies of the state.
The point of the book is to draw a line in the sand and say, ‘No, this must stop.’
Some 200,000 Americans died because of anti-science aggression. They were victims of this coordinated campaign. That’s why we need to care about it. It’s horrifying. I want to honour the legacy of those victims.
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