According to The National Pulse, a professor has published a paper in a scientific journal calling for hate crime protections to be extended to scientists, including Dr. Anthony Fauci. It seems that scientists are under assault by far-right, anti-science extremists.
Scientific Journal Paper Suggests Making It A 'Federal Hate Crime' To Criticize Fauci. https://t.co/Lusv7dex1i
— Raheem J. Kassam (@RaheemKassam) August 3, 2021
Natalie Winters reports:
A scientific journal article authored by Professor Peter Hotez, a frequent guest on corporate media networks, called to “extend federal hate-crime protections” for scientists facing criticism from alleged “far-right extremists,” including National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci.
Dr. Hotez, who himself has been funded by Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since 1993, offered the robust defense of scientists including Fauci and EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak in a recent paper: “Mounting Antiscience Aggression In The United States.”
“There is a troubling new expansion of antiscience aggression in the United States. It’s arising from far-right extremism,” the paper, published in the peer-reviewed Public Library of Science (PLOS) Biology journal, begins.
“A band of ultraconservative members of the US Congress and other public officials with far-right leanings are waging organized and seemingly well-coordinated attacks against prominent US biological scientists. In parallel, conservative news outlets repeatedly and purposefully promote disinformation designed to portray key American scientists as enemies,” it reiterates.
Hotez even condemns the “America First” movement of the far-right, which “focuses on nativism, anti-immigration, and a foreign policy built around strong military build-up and deterrence, and confrontation with China.”
Again, this is a biology journal.
That's rather unscientific for a scientific journal.
— Keith Finnegan (@KFinnegan) August 3, 2021
Remember when Fauci said when you were attacking him you were essentially attacking science itself?
Blasphemy laws. Nice
— Blank Regina (@reg_blank) August 3, 2021
Scientism at its finest…
— Natural Homeschool (@nathomeschool) August 3, 2021
Fauciphobia?
— Robert King #JoinCapecord 🌸 (@realRobertCK) August 3, 2021
Will they prosecute Gov. Ron DeSantis for his “Don’t Fauci My Florida” T-shirts?
It’s then Faucism. pic.twitter.com/DoE5GU5W7w
— Jasper (@roaiasu) August 3, 2021
Let's just make him emperor of earth and get it over with.
— Muddy Hollow (@AbstractGuts) August 3, 2021
Will it be a crime when he disagrees with himself?
— Done with dumb S**t! (@Donewitdumbs__t) August 3, 2021
Good question.
"…these elements converge to form a modern day authoritarian regime [9], seeking to concentrate power among a selected few while limiting the reach of opposition groups."
The balls on you, Hoetz.
— Brian Carmody (@BrianZKing) August 3, 2021
He's actually saying, to combate the authoritarian regime…of the minority party and opposition groups, we should consider additional laws to make it harder to criticize the government establishment.
— Brian Carmody (@BrianZKing) August 3, 2021
" Scientific ™️ "
— Moonlight Mac (@mac_moonlight) August 3, 2021
Journalists are already a protected class — Twitter will suspend you if you tell them to learn to code. Now they want Fauci to be protected from the far-right “America First” crowd. Why is it always a professor who comes up with these authoritarian ideas?
Related:
‘Man, this is rich’! Dr. Fauci trips over himself and ‘the experts’ in rush to criticize those who ‘just don’t believe science’ https://t.co/1OI9VBMMMM
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 18, 2020
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