"I call anti-vaccine activism anti-science aggression" | Dr. Peter Hotez vs Jim Jones

Speech of Jim Jones, uh I mean, dr. Peter Hotez on anti-vaccine activism. It's not poison, it's Kool-Aid. It's not poison, it's a vaccine.

Peter Jay Hotez is an American scientist, pediatrician, and advocate in the fields of global health, vaccinology, and neglected tropical disease control.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hotez

TRANSCRIPT

We have to recognize that anti-vaccine activism, which I actually call anti-science aggression, has now become a major killing force globally. During the COVID pandemic in the United States, 200,000 Americans needlessly lost their lives because they refused a COVID vaccine. Even after vaccines became widely available. And now the anti-vaccine activism is expanding across the world, even into low and middle income countries. It's a killing force. Anti-science now kills more people than things like gun violence, global terrorism, nuclear proliferation or cyber attacks. And now it's become a political movement. In the US it's linked to far extremism on the far right. Same in Germany. So this is a new face of anti-science aggression. And so we need political solutions to address this.

SOURCES

Hotez:
https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1602991915808456705

Jonestown:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zI9ub9AgF0