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 “SARS outbreaks remain a serious concern mainly due to possible zoonotic reintroduction of SARS-CoV into humans, accidental release from a laboratory, or deliberate spreading of the virus by a bioterrorist attack,” the grant’s description reads.((https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/vaccine-industry-peter-hotez-funded-wuhan-gain-of-function-study/))((https://web.archive.org/web/20221226103139/https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/vaccine-industry-peter-hotez-funded-wuhan-gain-of-function-study/))
+==== Antiscience - Anti-Vax - Anti-Semitism ====
+{{ ::peter_hotez_anti-vax_anti-semite_jan_2023.png?400|}}
+Global Vaccinations: New Urgency to Surmount a Triple Threat of Illness, Antiscience, and Anti-Semitism
+Peter J. Hotez, M.D., Ph.D
+INTRODUCTION
+Because of rising antivaccine activism and some key global policy missteps, we risk eroding more than 70 years of global health gains. This is occurring through an enabled and empowered antiscience ecosystem, with anti-Semitism and the targeting of Jewish biomedical scientists at its core.
+((https://web.archive.org/web/20230214100836/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9888484/))
+==== Hotez Book Interview ====
+A Virulent Antisemitism: An Interview with Dr. Peter Hotez
+December 19, 2022 By Jennifer Bardi
+{{ ::peter_hotez_book_interview.png?400|}}
+Peter J. Hotez (MD, PhD) is internationally known for his public science advocacy, having taken on anti-vax groups’ attempts to connect autism with vaccines and, more recently, for combating misinformation about fighting COVID.
+He regularly appears on major news shows and in print media and maintains an active presence on Twitter. In his forthcoming book, **The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: How Health Freedom Propaganda Endangers the World**, Hotez estimates that 200,000 Americans needlessly lost their lives from COVID during the last half of 2021 alone, which he largely blames on propaganda from the far right.
+The Anti-Defamation League presented you with the 2021 Milton S. Popkin Award, recognizing your efforts to combat antisemitism and its links to the anti-vaccine movement. Can you talk about those links and how it became a political force?
+The anti-vaccine movement started with false assertions that vaccines cause autism, and that revved up in the early 2000s. Then, about ten years ago, it pivoted to become a political movement linked to the Republican Tea Party’s concept of health freedom, or medical freedom.
+That’s when the first anti-vaccine political action committees were set up in Texas and other states to support far-right candidates who pushed health freedom propaganda, mostly linked to vaccines. During COVID-19, the movement expanded beyond childhood vaccinations to COVID vaccinations and other COVID prevention measures.
+That’s when it gained a lot of political strength and when you started to see the health freedom/medical freedom movement adopted by the [[:House Freedom Caucus]] in the U.S. Congress, amplified on [:Fox News]] by senators like [[:Rand Paul]] and [[:Ron Johnson]]. Every night Fox News was **spewing out rhetoric claiming vaccines were not effective or they weren’t safe.**
+You started to see the white nationalist [[:Proud Boys]] marching at anti-vaccine rallies. And, in fact, the first arrests in the [[:January 6th insurrection]] included [[:anti-vaccine]] activists. There became a very tight link between far-right extremism and anti-vaccine/anti-science rhetoric.
+((https://web.archive.org/web/20230130020232/https://momentmag.com/a-virulent-antisemitism-interview-with-dr-peter-hotez/))
+==== Fact Check Peter Hotez Anti-Vax smears ====
+Antivax = Antisemitism?
+Weaponizing language is just another competitive strategy
+Substack - Robert W Malone MD, MS - March 15, 2023
+Dr. Peter Hotez has recently published an opinion piece in an obscure academic journal in which he constructs a false equivalence between right wing politics, “Antiscience”, vaccine and vax mandate hesitancy (“Antivaxxer”), and antisemitism.
+According to this article, In his forthcoming book, The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: How Health Freedom Propaganda Endangers the World (Johns Hopkins Press anticipated 2023), Hotez estimates that 200,000 Americans needlessly lost their lives from COVID during the last half of 2021 alone, which he largely blames on propaganda from the far right.
+Dr. Peter Hotez:
+Nicole, I think by next week we're going to reach 675,000 Americans who've lost their life from COVID-19. That number is significant because that's the CDC's estimate of the number of people who died in the 1918 to 1921 flu pandemic. So we're about to exceed that, and we're going to reach around 800,000 deaths by the end of the year. And so many of those deaths were not only from the SARS-2 coronavirus, it was defiance, defiance against vaccines, especially in the last few months. This is death by anti-science, and a lot of this has been coming out of the nighttime Fox News anchors, this disinformation.
+And I'm often asked about Tucker Carlson or the others, Laura Ingram. I don't know. And what I say is, look, I don't think this has anything to do with the individual Fox anchors. This is coming from the top. This is a war of aggression against science and scientists coming out of Fox News as part of a larger authoritarian effort to discredit science and scientists, and I don't really really know what the motivation is, but it's having just a devastating effect. Just since May alone, Nicole, a hundred thousand Americans who have lost their lives, almost all of them unvaccinated despite the availability of safe and effective vaccines. These are a hundred thousand lives that never had to be lost. And then it's goes beyond heartbreaking.
+Editors note: Actually, to the extent that those lives lost were actually attributable to COVID-19 disease, we now know that almost all could have been prevented with early treatment using repurposed drugs. And we also know that the “vaccines” were neither safe nor effective in preventing infection, replication, and spread of the virus. And that the mortality attributed to COVID-19 in the USA was among the worst in the world.((https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/antivax-antisemitism))