Over the weekend, the MSM’s new vax-pushing darling, Dr. Peter Hotez, chickened out of a debate with presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. after a charity pot to do so reached more than $2.6 million in less than 24 hours.
Hotez, a frequent guest on CNN and NBC during the Covid-19 pandemic, first tried the ‘let’s take this offline‘ approach with Rogan, after first posting a link to a VICE article attacking claims made by RFK Jr. on Rogan’s podcast. Rogan called that a “non answer,” and his original $100,000 offer to donate to charity snowballed into millions after a flood of people committed to the pot.
He now says that getting ‘tag-teamed’ on Twitter has been “overwhelming,” telling MSNBC‘s Mehdi Hasan (after an establishment support strike was called in) “You know, the attacks from the anti-vaccine lobby do come in waves. And this time, though, it’s been one of the tougher ones. Because, as you pointed out, the physical stalking and the incessant threatening emails.”
“And the stuff online is just total whack-a-doodle. And let’s face it, when you have RFK Jr. and Joe Rogan, and Elon Musk, all tag-teaming, those tres hombres at the same time,” he added. “That probably includes just about every follower on Twitter. So, it’s pretty overwhelming.”
And the ultimate cope:
“In science, we don’t typically do debates. What we do is we write scientific papers … one doesn’t typically debate science. Maybe the one-off discussion of evolution versus creationism & that sort of thing, but that’s not what we do in science.”
You mean debates you can’t win?
Hellbound and Down 