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I ' m not going to " do " Columbus this year. I think people are coming around to the consensus that he is not a person who should have statues or a day in his honor. I ' ll just outsource to Adam Conover That taken care of, I commend your attention to thisinterview by Scientific American with Peter Hotez, who is dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, on the authoritarian roots of science denial. Best you read the whole thing, but here ' s a pull quote.People call [the antiscience movement] “misinformation” or “the
infodemic” as though it’s just random junk out there on the Internet or
social media, and it’s not—it’s organized, it’s well-financed, and it’s
politically motivated. It’s really its own ecosystem that’s doing a lot
of damage to the country and to American science and scientists. And now
it’s reached a new level. It’s become a lethal force. It’s the fact
that [at least]200,000 Americans needlessly perished
[between June 2021 and March 2022] because they refused the COVID
vaccine during the [Delta and Omicron COVID waves], and they were
victims of this organized campaign. So why is this happening? What ' s the motive, other than the obvious one of money?This is coming out of the authoritarian playbook, with devastating
consequences. We ’re seeing it not only in the U.S. but also in Brazil
with [former president Jair Bolsonaro’s] regime or with [Prime Minister]
Viktor Orbán i...
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