A Baylor College of Medicine professor of pediatrics and molecular virology is urging lawmakers to make criticizing Dr. Anthony Fauci a federal

A Baylor College of Medicine professor of pediatrics and molecular virology is urging lawmakers to make criticizing Dr. Anthony Fauci a federal ‘hate crime’, which would then be punishable with extended jail time.

Welcome to Orwell’s 1984.

In a July 28 paper in PLOS Biology titled “Mounting antiscience aggression in the United States,” Professor Peter Hotez writes that 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.”

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To combat what he calls “antiscience aggression,” Hotez suggests a number of ideas, including a total clamping down on alternate perspectives.

He recommends, for example, a bill called the Scientific Integrity Act of 2021 (H.R. 849), introduced in February by Rep. Paul Tonko (D-NY).

The legislation, he says, would serve “to protect US Government scientists from political interference, but this needs to be extended for scientists at private research universities and institutes,” he adds.

“Still another possibility is to extend federal hate-crime protections,” he advises, and then continues with what appears to be a recommendation for a blackout of views opposing his own.

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Hotez summarizes the “aggression against science and scientists in America arises from three sources,” and identifies them as: “1) Far-right members of the US Congress, 2) the conservative news outlets and 3) a group of thought leaders who provide intellectual underpinnings to fuel the first two elements.”

He cites as the source of the COVID “antiscience aggression” the administration of former President Donald Trump, which he appears to compare to Nazi and fascist regimes.

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