Thread by @PeterHotez

Receiving daily emails from distressed vaccinated individuals who cannot convince their loved ones to get the COVID19 vaccine. Most often older parents of an adult, sometimes pregnant daughter, or adolescent. The antiscience disinformation empire has caused a national tragedy

Tragically the empire was not established overnight, it built up and evolved over many years. It was enabled in part by USG + DHHS (going back several administrations) refusal to sound the alarm and launch a counteroffensive. I spent a part of my career saying this day would come

Now at least there is some acknowledgment that there’s a problem, but even now few are willing to get out there and identify the 3 heads of this highly evolved and evil antiscience empire, that’s what I’ve done thedailybeast.com/biden-battles-…

And now the antiscience empire is embarking on a new phase: targeting individual American scientists. Hoping that article comes online this week

In the meantime here is my 2017 @nytimes article, more than 4 years ago, sounding the alarm…for which I got a gentle rebuke from some in US Govt, who said we shouldn’t call attention to this, that their approach was adequate. It wasn’t and I knew it

nytimes.com/2017/02/08/opi…

But it’s not too late, we can and must create an interagency action between Departments HHS, Homeland Security, Commerce, Justice, and State. The point is now the antiscience empire has strength size and reach going way beyond the health sector. We need a different kind of advice

We must learn from those who have led the establishment of infrastructure to combat global terrorism, cyberattacks, nuclear proliferation. The reality is antiscience is now killing more Americans than all those other things combined