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. 2021 Apr 1;131(7):e149072.
doi: 10.1172/JCI149072.

America's deadly flirtation with antiscience and the medical freedom movement

Peter J Hotez  1   2   3   4   5
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America's deadly flirtation with antiscience and the medical freedom movement

Peter J Hotez. J Clin Invest. .
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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interest: PJH holds patents on vaccines for several poverty-related diseases and neglected tropical diseases, including hookworm infection, schistosomiasis, and Chagas disease (5,527,937; 5,753,787; 7,303,752 B2; 12/492,734; 61/077,256; PCT-20100701/0.20.5.18; PCT-61448231). He is an inventor on a COVID-19 vaccine technology owned by Baylor College of Medicine, recently licensed nonexclusively to Biological E Ltd. PJH is the author of the books Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel’s Autism: My Journey as a Vaccine Scientist, Pediatrician, and Autism Dad and Preventing the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-Science, both published by Johns Hopkins University Press.

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