Anti-science kills: From Soviet embrace of pseudoscience to accelerated attacks on US biomedicine.
The United States witnessed an unprecedented politicization of biomedical science starting in 2015 that has exploded into a complex, multimodal anti-science empire operating through mass media, political elections, legislation, and even health systems. Anti-science activities now pervade the daily l...
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| description | The United States witnessed an unprecedented politicization of biomedical science starting in 2015 that has exploded into a complex, multimodal anti-science empire operating through mass media, political elections, legislation, and even health systems. Anti-science activities now pervade the daily lives of many Americans, and threaten to infect other parts of the world. We can attribute the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans from COVID-19, measles, and other vaccine-preventable diseases to anti-science. The acceleration of anti-science activities demands not only new responses and approaches but also international coordination. Vaccines and other biomedical advances will not be sufficient to halt COVID-19 or future potentially catastrophic illnesses, unless we simultaneously counter anti-science aggression. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-98d88ee8bbbc46108ce0560d608bb7ef2022-12-21T20:11:48ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS Biology1544-91731545-78852021-01-01191e300106810.1371/journal.pbio.3001068Anti-science kills: From Soviet embrace of pseudoscience to accelerated attacks on US biomedicine.Peter J HotezThe United States witnessed an unprecedented politicization of biomedical science starting in 2015 that has exploded into a complex, multimodal anti-science empire operating through mass media, political elections, legislation, and even health systems. Anti-science activities now pervade the daily lives of many Americans, and threaten to infect other parts of the world. We can attribute the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans from COVID-19, measles, and other vaccine-preventable diseases to anti-science. The acceleration of anti-science activities demands not only new responses and approaches but also international coordination. Vaccines and other biomedical advances will not be sufficient to halt COVID-19 or future potentially catastrophic illnesses, unless we simultaneously counter anti-science aggression.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001068 |
| spellingShingle | Peter J Hotez Anti-science kills: From Soviet embrace of pseudoscience to accelerated attacks on US biomedicine. PLoS Biology |
| title | Anti-science kills: From Soviet embrace of pseudoscience to accelerated attacks on US biomedicine. |
| title_full | Anti-science kills: From Soviet embrace of pseudoscience to accelerated attacks on US biomedicine. |
| title_fullStr | Anti-science kills: From Soviet embrace of pseudoscience to accelerated attacks on US biomedicine. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Anti-science kills: From Soviet embrace of pseudoscience to accelerated attacks on US biomedicine. |
| title_short | Anti-science kills: From Soviet embrace of pseudoscience to accelerated attacks on US biomedicine. |
| title_sort | anti science kills from soviet embrace of pseudoscience to accelerated attacks on us biomedicine |
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