{"id":1552,"date":"2023-09-19T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=1552"},"modified":"2024-03-09T19:47:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T00:47:34","slug":"this-pediatrician-has-a-stark-warning-about-the-risks-of-anti-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/this-pediatrician-has-a-stark-warning-about-the-risks-of-anti-science\/","title":{"rendered":"This pediatrician has a stark warning about the risks of \u2018anti-science\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pediatrician, author and co-inventor of a low-cost COVID-19 vaccine warns that the anti-vaccine movement has morphed into a political force that threatens the world\u2019s gains against deadly childhood infections like measles.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Peter Hotez, author of the new book <i>The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist\u2019s Warning,<\/i> says the movement is well organized, well financed and includes powerful organizations in the U.S. such as the Republicans\u2019 House Freedom Caucus, certain senators and what he calls \u201ccontrarian-\u201d and \u201cpseudo-intellectuals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some are now looking to target routine childhood and adult immunizations, he told <a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/whitecoat\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>White Coat, Black Art<\/i><\/a> host Dr. Brian Goldman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pediatrician, author and co-inventor of a low-cost COVID-19 vaccine warns that the anti-vaccine movement has morphed into a political force that threatens the world\u2019s gains against deadly childhood infections like measles.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/this-pediatrician-has-a-stark-warning-about-the-risks-of-anti-science\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This pediatrician has a stark warning about the risks of \u2018anti-science\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[375,81,96,18,35,51,320,376,15],"class_list":["post-1552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-anti-vaccine-movement","tag-anti-vaxxers","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-disinformation","tag-united-states","tag-vaccination","tag-vaccine-hesitancy","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1553,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions\/1553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}