Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD (HOUSTON, TX), is a professor of pediatrics and molecular virology and microbiology and the founding dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, where he is also the codirector of the Texas Childrens Center for Vaccine Development. He is the author of Preventing the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-science and Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachels Autism: My Journey as a Vaccine Scientist, Pediatrician, and Autism Dad.
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Preface 1. An Army of Patriots Turns against the Scientists 2. Health Freedom Propaganda in America 3. Red COVID 4. An Anti-science Political Ecosystem 5. Tough Time to be a Scientist 6. The Authoritarian Playbook 7. The Hardest Science Communication Ever 8. Southern Poverty Law Center for Scientists About the Author Index
The authors short, passionate polemic, dense with studies and charts, provides overwhelming evidence that scientific research benefits humanity and that vaccines are lifesavers.Supremely well-informed.
— Kirkus Reviews
Virologist and vaccine expert Peter Hotez has provided the definitive work on this era....[His] warning about the broader implications of Covid denial must be heeded.
— Arthur Caplan— Science
[A] powerful eyewitness account of anti-scientific activities in the USA.
— Naomi Oreskes— The Lancet
Harrowing and deeply alarming.[Hotezs] analysis of the modern US anti-vaccine movement and its entanglement with the authoritarian right is astute.
— New Scientist
Globally, anti-science is a key part of the far-right, autocratic, populist playbook. Hotezs terrifying but profoundly important book shows how deep the anti-science rabbit hole goes, who is thriving on chaos, and why anti-science is surging everywhere. The book is an eye-opening exposé of the catastrophic consequences of anti-science.
— Madhukar Pai, MD, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology and Global Health, McGill University