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Midwest Doc,

Well, separate from my work at NIH with Fauci, in late nineties I worked with the emerging small nonprofit at Georgetown Univ: Sabin Vaccine Institute. It rapidly grew and I was ousted; Peter Hotez brought in along with GAVI monies. They were pulling together the dengue vaccine initiative. He went to Texas because of the vax trials going on there. I was frequently up close and personal with Hotez. Saw him in action and over time.

He really is a sociopath. Works directly for the Deep State Cabal.

Laura Kragie MD biomedworks.substack.com

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Kathryn DeFea's avatar

Thanks for writing this. I think your assessment of Hotez is fascinating. Spending most of my adult life within the academic science community, I started to normalize its cult-like tendencies in my mind, but COVID was really a wake-up call. I had always had a bit of imposter syndrome as an academic scientist and realized, when everyone around me fell in line, that I had never bought into the expert worship, group-think mentality that surrounded me. I used to joke about the superficial “fashion trends” that seemed to drive NIH funding priorities (vaccinate for everything would be one of those), and lamented the increasing tendency of my peers to value technological innovation over basic science discovery. On top of that, there is such a focus on “influence” in merit file review -how many talks are you asked to give, how many books and reviews are you invited to write, are you on the editorial board of a journal or president of a scientific society—it is hard to succeed in academic science without tooting your own horn and convincing others that your work is of the utmost importance. You are competing with your colleagues for a limited pool of funding so your work has to be the most important, the most novel, the most cutting edge. Too many people drink their own kool-aid and narcissism is inadvertently encouraged. I think that leads to people like Hotez and Fauci rising to the top of the cesspool.

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