The WHO thinks 'anti-vaccine activism' is deadlier than terrorism, writes Daniel Nuccio.
“We have to recognize that anti-vaccine activism, which I actually call anti-science aggression, has now become a major killing force globally,” declared Dr. Peter Hotez of the Baylor College of Medicine in a video shared on Twitter last month by the WHO.“It’s a killing force,” he warned, one deadlier than “gun violence, global terrorism, nuclear proliferation, or cyberattacks.”
The most chilling part of the video, however, comes as Hotez speaks his final line: “And so we need political solutions to address this.” — World Health Organization December 14, 2022 Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Hotez had a long career studying tropical diseases largely forgotten in the first world. A considerable portion of his research included attempts to develop vaccines against the parasitic organisms responsible for them.
As the pandemic continued, Hotez also began to attempt to tie opposition to COVID-19 policy not only to previous anti-vaccine activist movements that most people had largely come to dismiss but also to historical examples of belief in medical quackery and contemporary extremist groups of right-wing boogeymen.
In a 2021 article, Hotez pronounced opposition to COVID-19 restrictions as not just a form of anti-science activism but a form of “aggression” perpetrated by congressional Republicans, right-wing news outlets, and conservative intellectuals.
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