Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1. An Army of Patriots Turns against the Scientists
Chapter 2. Health Freedom Propaganda in America
Chapter 3. Red COVID
Chapter 4. An Anti-science Political Ecosystem
Chapter 5. A Tough Time to Be a Scientist
Chapter 6. The Authoritarian Playbook
Chapter 7. The Hardest Science Communication Ever
Chapter 8. Southern Poverty Law Center for Scientists
Literature Cited
Index

Promotional Information

Dr. Peter Hotez discusses how an antivaccine movement became a dangerous political campaign promoted by elected officials and amplified by news media, causing thousands of American deaths.

About the Author

Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD (HOUSTON, TX), is a professor of pediatrics and molecular virology and microbiology and the founding dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, where he is also the codirector of the Texas Children's Center for Vaccine Development. He is the author of Preventing the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-science and Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel's Autism: My Journey as a Vaccine Scientist, Pediatrician, and Autism Dad.

Reviews

The author's short, passionate polemic, dense with studies and charts, provides overwhelming evidence that scientific research benefits humanity and that vaccines are lifesavers.Supremely well-informed.
—Kirkus Reviews

Virologist and vaccine expert Peter Hotez has provided the definitive work on this era....[His] warning about the broader implications of Covid denial must be heeded.
—Arthur Caplan, Science

[A] powerful eyewitness account of anti-scientific activities in the USA.
—Naomi Oreskes, The Lancet

Harrowing and deeply alarming.[Hotez's] analysis of the modern US anti-vaccine movement and its entanglement with the authoritarian right is astute.
—New Scientist