Peter Hotez on the increase of anti-science aggression on social media
A large part is due to the &quot;because science..&quot; crutch used in order to stop any questions.<p>Also, it&#x27;s the classic &quot;Don&#x27;t meet your heroes&quot;, because when the spotlight was pointed at the &quot;scientific community&quot; ( whatever that means.. ), the &quot;plebes&quot; saw a bunch of liars, fraudsters, careerists and also the complete opposite of scientific reasoning. Just like any other field...<p>In my opinion the main event is the removal of the pristine mask that covered the &quot;scientists&quot; and that&#x27;s a good thing. However, most of those who &quot;expose the lies&quot; are 10 times worse than the exposed. The only good way forward is to &quot;scientists&quot; go back into doing actual Science and nothing more.<p>Social media is &quot;just&quot; a multiplier of things due to the networking effect, it can only increase something if the thing is not zero to begin with.