Posted on Jun 21, 2023
Vaccine expert Dr. Peter Hotez harassed outside Houston home after weekend of online attacks |...
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Houston vaccine expert and scientist Dr. Peter Hotez was the target of intense online attacks that culminated with two people showing up at his home Sunday, he said.
"Ugh I just was stalked in front of my home by a couple of antivaxers taunting me to debate RFKJr," Hotez tweeted. "Of course I was looking my Sunday best in our brutal heat wave. What is it with people?"
The online attacks against Hotez began after a podcast hosted by Joe Rogan and featuring Democratic presidential candidate and anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was posted at the end of last week.
Hotez tweeted a story critical of the podcast and the false claims the episode contained, unleashing even more attacks. Rogan upped the ante by offering Hotez $100,000 to come on his podcast and debate Kennedy.
The back and forth dominated Twitter over the weekend, with owner Elon Musk joining in the pile-on against Hotez.
The harassment left the online world on Sunday morning when a man recorded himself confronting Hotez outside the doctor's Houston home. The man posted the video to Twitter.
The man later claimed he tried to turn himself in to Houston police, but that could not be independently verified.
"Ugh I just was stalked in front of my home by a couple of antivaxers taunting me to debate RFKJr," Hotez tweeted. "Of course I was looking my Sunday best in our brutal heat wave. What is it with people?"
The online attacks against Hotez began after a podcast hosted by Joe Rogan and featuring Democratic presidential candidate and anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was posted at the end of last week.
Hotez tweeted a story critical of the podcast and the false claims the episode contained, unleashing even more attacks. Rogan upped the ante by offering Hotez $100,000 to come on his podcast and debate Kennedy.
The back and forth dominated Twitter over the weekend, with owner Elon Musk joining in the pile-on against Hotez.
The harassment left the online world on Sunday morning when a man recorded himself confronting Hotez outside the doctor's Houston home. The man posted the video to Twitter.
The man later claimed he tried to turn himself in to Houston police, but that could not be independently verified.
Vaccine expert Dr. Peter Hotez harassed outside Houston home after weekend of online attacks |...
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Come around my home and harass me, one might get met with a load of double-ought.
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Folks just can't get/not get the shot. They definitely need some kind of medical attention!
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What is it about people that for the past five years at least, seems to drive people to be unable to have a civil exchange of thoughts and opinions? We are all establishing opinions about what is going on in the world around us, in part based on listening to what a variety of people in a variety of sources say, who may have already done the work they needed to do, to feel comfortable about having an opinion on issue - while claiming the freedom to evolve and revise opinions based on new information. It used to be referred to as being objective and treating one another respectably. The real debate is between and among vaccine experts. As usual, independent researchers (thought they are funded somehow) and those hired by government or the pharmaceutical industry or any other entity pushing an agenda, often have a difference of opinion, don't they. It is usually those pushing an agenda which has been bought and paid for who are uncivil. But of course it is about politics and political choices, so passions run high.
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