Dr. Peter Hotez targeted at home by anti-vaxxers equating vaccines to Nazism
Wonder where they got that idea...
Last week, Dr. Peter Hotez received a swastika mask and some swastika/vaccine art at his home, his second such Nazi mistargeting in a month. Nazi comparisons have been a disgusting tactic by anti-vax leadership and funders during this pandemic - see Dr. Simone Gold, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Del Bigtree at Defeat the Mandates, Elon Musk over the Trucker Convoy.
Increase in targeted attacks against healthcare workers in the overwhelming pro-vax majority was something we worried about with Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, dropping of their Covid disinformation policy, and re-instatement of extremists - including the disinformation doctors. We have seen this from Musk himself with his targeting of Dr. Fauci and with Musk’s friend Rogan’s fake vaccine tweet debacle. And before all of that, we saw the US arm of the Truckers targeting of California State Senator Dr. Richard Pan over his support of pro-vax bills.
Prior to involving himself with the anti-vax political conspiracy, Rogan had Dr. Hotez on his Spotify show where the future Nobel nominee warned the college dropout conspiracy theorist that the “anti-vax lobby” owns the internet. Rogan would, of course, disregard this warning and go on to platform the disinformation doctors who promoted the Defeat the Mandates rally series where Del Bigtree called for Nuremberg trials for pro-vax doctors, politicians, and journalists. (Rogan has continued to amplify the work of Disinformation Dozen member RFK Jr. who has compared the plight of the anti-vaxxer to Anne Frank and whose fraud 501c3 Children’s Health Defense is responsible for 1/4 of anti-vax tweets.)
RFK Jr. worked with political radical Dr. Simone Gold on the evangelical church tour circuit, despite her supposed devout Jewish faith. Gold’s America’s Frontline Doctors made a conspiracy film with ambush footage of California Medical Board president Kristina Lawson depicting her as a Nazi and making references to Orwell and Stalin. In reality, having doctors willing to lie for extremist politics contributed to the rise of Hitler and Nazism.
Gold is a traveling cast member on Mike Flynn’s QAnon ReAwaken America tour and her male disinformation doctor colleagues like McCullough and Malone have appeared on Steve Bannon’s “War Room: Pandemic” podcast in addition to The Joe Rogan Experience and Senator Ron Johnson’s "2nd Opinion Panels”. So you tell us who the Nazis are here.
Last May, we contributed to a MedPage Today piece “Should Doctors Worry About ‘Nuremberg 2.0?’”, highlighting the fact that AFLDS member Bret Barker’s ‘Nuremberg 2.0 LTD’ was listed in formal opposition to AB2098 - as was RFK Jr.’s Children’s Health Defense - during the California State Assembly hearing.
While Barker had advertised his CEO position at Nuremberg 2.0 LTD openly on his LinkedIn, the mere mention of his involvement out in the open in a mainstream outlet scared AFLDS enough to file a $5 million defamation lawsuit against MedPage Today. As former Stop the Steal speaker Del Bigtree stated at Defeat the Mandates, they need to go after pro-vax doctors, politicians, and journalists.
This is fascism. The disinformation doctors are a threat to not just public health but democracy itself. This is a war on truth. Facts don’t matter. History is re-written.
This is America on unmitigated hate speech masked and marketed as “free speech”.