Posted on 06/04/2024 6:53:39 PM PDT by DoodleBob
As a vocal advocate of vaccinations for public health, Peter Hotez was no stranger to online harassment and threats. But then the abuse showed up on his doorstep.
It was a Sunday during a brutal Texas heatwave in June 2023 when a man turned up at Hotez’s home, filming himself as he shouted questions at the scientist, who is a paediatrician and virologist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.
Because of the long-running online and real-life abuse he has faced, Hotez now has the Texas Medical Center Police, Houston Police Department and Harris County Sheriff’s Office on speed dial, an agent tasked to him from the FBI and extra security whenever he speaks publicly.
“This is a very powerful adversarial force that is seeking to undermine science, and now it’s not only going after the science. It’s going after the scientists,” he says.
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Such threats to scientists aren’t new; those researching climate change and gun control, for example, have endured abuse for decades. However, since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an unprecedented escalation in the intensity and frequency of attacks, and the range of targets, say researchers. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and one of the most high-profile infectious-diseases specialists during the pandemic, was subject not just to online trolling, but to two credible attempts on his life that prompted the arrests of two people. …
This issue has led to a court case in New Zealand, in which microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles is suing her employer, the University of Auckland, over the way it has responded to the ongoing harassment she has experienced since early 2020, which included online attacks and people confronting her in public.
(Excerpt) Read more at nature.com ...
Want to help “science”?
Start by sticking to the scientific method, and not allowing socialism or politics from influencing with their agenda such as with climate change advocates, or insisting on telling people that women can be men and vice versa.
How about we try to advocate Critical Thinking, or thinking for yourself, and not Critical Theory, which is nothing but marxist indoctrination .
Yeah, it's called Fake Journals and Politically-Motivated Research, and Agenda-Driven Funding.
Yep.. science has turned into whatever the government tells them to say or funds them to say especially in the medical and environmental fields.
From this morning and the UK's Daily Mail...
An unexpected side-effect of WFH culture? Sperm are now less active
Working from home. Uh huh. Doesn't look like many of the people commenting are buying it. And for good reason. From 2022...
Especially loved this bit at the end...
...While on first look, these results may seem concerning, from a clinical perspective they confirm previous reports regarding vaccines' overall safety and reliability despite minor short‐term side effects. Since misinformation about health‐related subjects represents a public health threat, 23 our findings should support vaccinations programs. Further studies concentrating on different vaccines and populations (ex. subfertile patients) are urgently required.
Bold is mine.
So is posting this considered harrassment?
Someone with an actually inquiring mind wants to know.
The Swine Flu vaxx was pulled in ‘77 after causing fewer than three dozen reported deaths and around 500 reported injuries.
Question for Big Pharma and Big Med: Why is human life worth so much less to you lot now?
Reproductive toxicity perspectives of nanoparticles: an update
...Introduction: The rapid development of nanotechnologies with their widespread prosperities has advanced concerns regarding potential health hazards of the Nanoparticles. Results: Nanoparticles are currently present in several consumer products, including medications, food, textiles, sports equipment, and electrical components. Despite the advantages of Nanoparticles, their potential toxicity has negative impact on human health, particularly on reproductive health...
Bold is mine.
The author doesn't use the word in the abstract, but guess what else can contain nanoparticles...
Vaccines...
Researching gun control.?? We need someone to research gun control??? Sheesh.. If that's what they're researching you can bet it ain't science that's on their minds..
Showing up at the front door with a camera—isn’t that what “60 Minutes” did for decades?
Yeah, I think your on to something there...
It’s interesting that they don’t mention the harassment of scientists Dr. Kulldorff, Dr. Bhattacharya and Dr. Gupta
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Practically the entire Stanford faculty lounge was after Bhattacharya and Atlas to have them cancelled. Kulldorff was let go from the CDC Covid-19 Vaccine Safety group and later from Harvard. Here is an op-ed he wrote earlier this year.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/harvard-tramples-the-truth
Ditto
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