I was with you up until the last paragraph, which I found rather jarring. Whatever your differences with Hotez, don't they amount to no more than a quibble, on the scale of the torrent of irrational abuse he's been subjected to from right-wing nutcases and anti-vax lunatics? Why insult him in a way which comes off as moral equivalence between him and the conspiracy-mongers?
I was with you up until the last paragraph, which I found rather jarring. Whatever your differences with Hotez, don't they amount to no more than a quibble, on the scale of the torrent of irrational abuse he's been subjected to from right-wing nutcases and anti-vax lunatics? Why insult him in a way which comes off as moral equivalence between him and the conspiracy-mongers?