"Scientific" Journal Suggests That It Should Be a Federal Hate Crime to Criticize Anthony Fauci

By Natalie Winters at the National Pulse:

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.

Is PLOS reputable? Question for the scientists out there. I thought I've read crticism that the peer reviewing at the place is a bit... Easy Mode.

But let me know.

Either way, this asshole does work for the Gain-of-Function Deep State, funded by Fauci's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

"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.

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Hotez even draws comparisons to the intentions of the Trump administration and its "America First" allies to those of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Marxists and Leninists...

In response, Hotez calls for a public statement in defense of Fauci and other COVID-19 scientists from "President of the United States together with science leaders at the federal agencies"” and even floats that "another possibility is to extend federal hate-crime protections."

His paper rails against the alleged "authoritarianism" of the right while simultaneously demanding that those who criticize Fauci be imprisoned.

Who the heck wrote this, AllahPundit?

Or the Chinese Ministry of Information?

Read the whole thing. He seems to want to prosecute Marjorie Taylor Greene for the hate crime of introducing the "Fire Fauci" Act. He pushes the idea that the lab leak theory is a conspiracy theory and that it's "sinister" to ask questions about it, even in a Congressional hearing.

posted by Ace at 02:15 PM

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