It's a shame that this article decided to focus so heavily on Peter Hotez. While I would never advocate for, or defend the people who are threatening the man, Hotez' actions both before and during the pandemic were questionable, at best.
For those who do not know, Peter Hotez has been a staunch defender the EcoHealth Alliance, which recently had its funding pulled by congress in a bi-partisan response to ongoing revelations about mismanagement and lack of oversight of grants related to the Wuhan Institute of Virology [1]. Hotez has been on many threads (for example [2]) in recent releases of emails related to EcoHealth, where government officials were caught attempting to dodge FOIA [3, 4].
Again, I don't support threats or violence, but Hotez is not above the fray. He is not merely an innocent, naïve scientist, targeted unfairly for his research. He was intimately involved in an emerging scientific / political scandal related to the Covid-19 pandemic at the highest levels of the US government.
[1] https://www.science.org/content/article/federal-officials-su...
[2] https://x.com/emilyakopp/status/1788283704432844926
[3] https://x.com/COVIDSelect/status/1794811284652753280
[4] https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/nih-foia-covid-ori...
For those who do not know, Peter Hotez has been a staunch defender the EcoHealth Alliance, which recently had its funding pulled by congress in a bi-partisan response to ongoing revelations about mismanagement and lack of oversight of grants related to the Wuhan Institute of Virology [1]. Hotez has been on many threads (for example [2]) in recent releases of emails related to EcoHealth, where government officials were caught attempting to dodge FOIA [3, 4].
Again, I don't support threats or violence, but Hotez is not above the fray. He is not merely an innocent, naïve scientist, targeted unfairly for his research. He was intimately involved in an emerging scientific / political scandal related to the Covid-19 pandemic at the highest levels of the US government.
[1] https://www.science.org/content/article/federal-officials-su...
[2] https://x.com/emilyakopp/status/1788283704432844926
[3] https://x.com/COVIDSelect/status/1794811284652753280
[4] https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/nih-foia-covid-ori...