Why is Peter Hotez afraid to debate vaccine safety?

Preeminent defender of vaccine orthodoxy, Dr. Peter Hotez, recently had the temerity to respond to a Children’s Health Defense tweet, prompting an avalanche of critical comments. The tweet in question:

 

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD: @PeterHotez
And debate what? It’s like debating whether or not smoking causes cancer. Or whether seat belts are safe. There’s nothing to debate. There’s only #Science vs a band of miscreants who monetize the internet, sell fake books, phony autism cures, or those just desperate for relevancy
Children’s Health Defense: @ChildrensHD: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has told you he will debate you anytime and anywhere on #vaccines. But you don’t do it. The science and truth are clearly on RFK, Jr.’s side. #debateRFKJR twitter.com/peterhotez/sta
7:10 AM · Oct 19, 2019.

 

Not only is the dismissal of vaccine critics as “miscreants” bound to back-fire, so will the blanket denial of any and all vaccine injury. The long thread of comments almost universally condemned Hotez for his cowardly refusal to debate and his exaltation of “Science”, ironically using the term as a crucifix to ward off the mounting criticism of vaccine safety and efficacy.

Why is it so hard for these people to admit that vaccines not only have caused a massive amount of injury and death, but that they aren’t the saviors of civilization that they are touted as? I understand that Hotez’ life’s work is in vaccine technology and innovation, but he comes across as a bad faith actor, incredibly deceitful in discussions concerning vaccine safety. More and more people are calling BS on this kind of blind promotion of vaccine orthodoxy, one that doesn’t allow any criticism at all.

Wisdom from Nock

From excellent his essay, “The Criminality of the State”:

“So it strikes me that instead of sweating blood over the iniquity of foreign states, my fellow citizens would do a great deal better by themselves to make sure that the American State is not strong enough to carry out the like iniquities here. The stronger the American State is allowed to grow, the higher its record of criminality will grow, according to its opportunities and temptations. If, then, instead of devoting energy, time, and money to warding off wholly imaginary and fanciful dangers from criminals thousands of miles away, our people turn their patriotic fervor loose on the only source from which danger can proceed, they will be doing their full duty by their country.”

Code Pink protests George W. Bush’s ghoulish, Boeing-sponsored exhibit of his paintings of Iraq War veterans

G.W.B.’s art display of his paintings of veterans/victims of his murderous, unnecessary regime-change war he began sounds like a puzzle for Freud or Hannibal Lecter to solve. Adding another layer is the fact that Boeing has sponsored the exhibit.

Isn’t this the type of behavior that serial killers indulge in? Code Pink has it right: “Why are we celebrating the guy who took these people to war?”

Trump’s “come home now” method of ending a war is the only way to do it

Amazingly, he tweeted:

“Very smart not to be involved in the intense fighting along the Turkish Border, for a change. Those that mistakenly got us into the Middle East Wars are still pushing to fight. They have no idea what a bad decision they have made. Why are they not asking for a Declaration of War?”

That is an astounding statement from anyone in power, much less a sitting President. The troop withdrawal from Syria amounts to just 1,000 troops, but the language Trump uses to defend the decision is important. There is no pretty way to end a war, or the case of the United States, a series of occupations where US soldiers are performing police duties on the other side of the planet. The only way to withdraw is to mirror the way the war began, as Ron Paul said: “Just come home. We just went in, and we can just come home.”

Fort Worth cop murders woman while standing outside her window

Fort Worth PD has a Barney Fife with Punisher delusions, apparently, and it has now cost a woman her life. The woman had been playing a video game with her 8-year old nephew when they heard a noise coming from outside the home. The noise turned out to be a badged psychopath who began screaming at the woman, who was still inside her home, just before opening fire through the window, killing her. Now the boy will grow up with this hideous experience in the midst of the national pastime of rampant cop worship.

US diplomat’s wife kills kid on UK road, claims diplomatic immunity, flees the country

19-year old Harry Dunn was driving his motorcycle near a military base on August 27th when he was struck head-on by Anne Sacoolas, wife of a US diplomat, killing him. Because Sacoolas is American, and was probably drunk, she had been driving on the wrong side of the road at the time. She claimed diplomatic immunity and fled the country in an act of abject cowardice. It has now become an international incident, with Dunn’s parents unrelenting in their pursuit of justice for their boy. It has become an international incident, with the British public as well as many in the US demanding justice for Dunn. England now says that Sacoolas’ return to the UK is “non-negotiable‘, as her diplomatic immunity privileges have been revoked, but should never have been invoked as a shield against the consequences of killing someone in the first place.

The arrogance of the Political Class is on display here. Sacoolas believed she could get away with the killing by using her credentials as a member of the political establishment. Dragging her back to England to face justice would at least remind others in a similar station that they are not above the law.

One more point: some have said that the guilt and grief felt by Sacoolas will haunt her for the rest of her life, and will be punishment in and of itself. I disagree. I don’t know Sacoolas, but I’ve known people who have no capacity to feel guilt, remorse, or grief. Most of us have probably been acquainted with someone at one point in our lives who clearly has only their own interests at heart, and would sleep well regardless of whatever atrocity they inadvertently caused that day. These people are preternaturally skilled at making convincing displays of guilt and remorse once they’ve been caught, but only then. If they can get away with it, then they go on as if nothing has happened. Just look at OJ Simpson, who appears well-fed and well-rested and with untroubled mind every time he appears in public. No person with functioning emotional capacity could endure the ensuing inner darkness after committing such an act.

 

Why not allow Sacoolas to be extradited and tried in England? If found guilty, as she would certainly be, why not toss her in an English prison for a year or two? It would be long enough to ponder the meaning of her actions, to think upon the death that she caused.