Blue-Red? More like blue-gray. In this summer delta wave, COVID19 has so far affected mainly affected the Confederacy with deaths mostly among unvaccinated in defiance of vaccines. The most self-defeating act I’ve ever personally witnessed. All victims of antiscience aggression
https://twitter.com/jcslattery/status/1444003994754551829
This morning I will speak with @AliVelshi @VelshiMSNBC about reaching out terrible 700,000 US death toll from COVID19. Will emphasize how we had the tools to stop this much earlier, and avert maybe the last 200,000 deaths. But we failed to take antiscience aggression seriously
I’ve written a series of articles about this in @PLOSBiology @sciam @jclinicalinvest that make the following case: antiscience aggression is well organized, well funded, and a deliberate/essential element of authoritarian control and power from the right journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…
It’s roots go back almost 90 years when Stalin wielded antiscience aggression as part of his purges journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…
In the US antiscience first accelerated here in Texas in 2015 with the health freedom movement linked to the Republican Tea Party jci.org/articles/view/… here’s my first paper on this movement in @PLOSMedicine journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/a…
It has since been exported and has gone global most recently even in #Canada scientificamerican.com/article/the-an…
In this @nature essay I argued for stepped up measures to combat antiscience aggression nature.com/articles/d4158…
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