Hotez Peter J
Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology, Texas Children's Center for Vaccine Development, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America.
Hagler Institute for Advanced Study at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America.
PLoS Biol. 2021 Jan 28;19(1):e3001068. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001068. eCollection 2021 Jan.
The United States witnessed an unprecedented politicization of biomedical science starting in 2015 that has exploded into a complex, multimodal anti-science empire operating through mass media, political elections, legislation, and even health systems. Anti-science activities now pervade the daily lives of many Americans, and threaten to infect other parts of the world. We can attribute the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans from COVID-19, measles, and other vaccine-preventable diseases to anti-science. The acceleration of anti-science activities demands not only new responses and approaches but also international coordination. Vaccines and other biomedical advances will not be sufficient to halt COVID-19 or future potentially catastrophic illnesses, unless we simultaneously counter anti-science aggression.
自2015年起，美国见证了生物医学科学前所未有的政治化，这种政治化已演变成一个通过大众媒体、政治选举、立法甚至卫生系统运作的复杂、多模式的反科学帝国。反科学活动如今充斥着许多美国人的日常生活，并有可能蔓延至世界其他地区。我们可以将数以万计美国人因新冠疫情、麻疹和其他疫苗可预防疾病而死亡归咎于反科学。反科学活动的加速不仅需要新的应对措施和方法，还需要国际协调。除非我们同时对抗反科学的攻击，否则疫苗和其他生物医学进步将不足以遏制新冠疫情或未来可能发生的灾难性疾病。
