Global Courant
After Peter Hotez, a leading vaccine researcher and expert who helped develop the COVID vaccine Corbevax, Democratic presidential nominee and anti-vaxxer Robert R. Kennedy Jr. scolded for spreading “bullshit” on Joe Rogan’s podcast, Rogan offered Hotez $100,000 to debate Kennedy. his podcast.
Kennedy appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience on Thursday and reiterated his claim that routine vaccinations cause autism.
That brought Dr. Hotez, an MD/PhD who is dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, to label Kennedy’s statements “misinformation.” Hotez retweeted Vice’s story”Spotify has even stopped trying to counter Joe Rogan’s vaccine misinformationwriting: “Just awful. And from all the online attacks I get after this absurd podcast, it is clear that many actually believe this nonsense.”
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Rogan then offered Hotez $100,000 to debate Kennedy on his podcast, to which Hotez replied, “Joe, you’ve got my cell, you’ve got my email, I’m always willing to talk to you.”
When Rogan called the answer a “non-answer,” the virologist responded, “Joe, if you’re serious about tackling vaccines + the fact that 200,000 unvaccinated Americans died needlessly during our horrible delta/BA.1 Covid- waves (including 40,000 in our state from Texas) for falling victim to vaccine misinformation: I want to have that discussion.”
Dr. Hotez added, “I’m happy to drop by and have a meaningful discussion. I respect you and your show and I don’t want an adversarial relationship. I think we can make some progress.”
Then Twitter owner Elon Musk jumped in to talk about Dr. Hotez saying, “He’s afraid of public debate because he knows he’s wrong.”
To this replied Dr. Hotez: “Seriously Elon? This is monstrous.”
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Read the Twitter discourse below.
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