Dr. Peter Hotez Takes the War Against Science Very Personally

Hiltzik: Scientists always strive to be apolitical, but they can’t keep politics out of their labs

There’s a scene in the movie “Oppenheimer” in which Ernest Lawrence, the inventor of the cyclotron and head of his own lab at UC Berkeley, reacts angrily when he discovers his friend J. Robert Oppenheimer trying to recruit lab assistants to a communist-linked campus labor union. It’s one of the few scenes in this largely factual film that may actually have downplayed the real event. Lawrence was beyond furious at Oppenheimer for bringing politic…

Dr. Peter Hotez takes the war against science very personally

In an interview about the new book he co-authored, Science Under Siege, Hotez talks about forces driving the anti-science movement, the risks it poses — and why he won't debate RFK Jr.

'Science Under Siege' book details ideological attacks on science

What can the public and scientific community do to counter those attacks?

Science is under siege from weaponised disinformation – posing a threat to human civilisation | Michael Mann and Peter Hotez

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