Professor suggests it should be a federal hate crime to criticize Fauci and other government-funded scientists | The College Fix
Dr. Peter Hotez, a professor of pediatrics and molecular virology at Baylor College of Medicine, is arguing that federal hate-crime protections may need to be extended to Dr. Anthony Fauci and other scientists targeted by far-right extremism.
In his July 28 paper Mounting antiscience aggression in the United States, Hotez writes that a band of ultraconservative members of the US Congress and other public officials with far-right leanings are waging organized and seemingly well-coordinated attacks against prominent US biological scientists.
With that, the professor contends in his paper that Congress should look at expanded protection mechanisms for scientists currently targeted by far-right extremism in the United States, citing a bill that has been introduced named the Scientific Integrity Act of 2021.
It would protect government-funded scientists from political interference, but this needs to be extended for scientists at private research universities and institutes. Still another possibility is to extend federal hate-crime protections, Hotez wrote.
I saw this guy on YouTube and wondered about him. This makes me wonder more still.