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Tardigrade's avatar

Thank you! Finally, someone mentions that 2018 Hotez article "Crafting Your Scientist Brand." I try to cite it in every substack article that mentions his name. It just doesn't seem like something a legitimate scientist ought to be focusing on.

"Hotez worked very hard to brand himself as a scientific celebrity (to the point he even wrote a paper about how he’d done it) so he could be an ambassador of science." I'm sure he likes the attention, but since he went on a publicity tour in 2019 to praise the gloriousness of vaccines, perhaps an equal if not greater motivation was protecting the funding flow for his tropical vaccine Institute.

As for not wanting to debate RFK, you "can empathize with why he is terrorized by the thought anyone might look into what he did." That, charitably, would imply he's capable of feeling guilt (doubtful) or is afraid of legal consequences. Personally, I think he's more afraid of the resulting "irrelevance and mockery" if he lost such a debate. And of course loss of $$$.

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Joseph Kerner's avatar

Hotez blocked me on Twitter. For some weird reason, he took issue with me posting that he was a medical whore who sold his soul to shill for Pharma and governments. 😂😂 I posted this on someone else’s tweet, not even addresses to Hotez, and he saw it.

Oh, yeah, I also happened to mention he has no integrity, honor or ethics. I guess he didn’t like that, either. 🤔

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