Science Under Siege

Peter Hotez and Michael Mann, a vaccine scientist and a climate scientist, join CNN's Jake Tapper to discuss their book Science Under Siege. The book argues that anti-science is now organized, well funded and politically powerful, and that it is "obstructing the needed response from government and civil society."

What the interview covers

• Why the authors see attacks on vaccines and on climate science as one movement rather than two
• How anti-science slows the response to public health and climate threats
• The cost to scientists who become targets of harassment
• What citizens, institutions and the media can do in response

About the authors

Hotez is a pediatrician and dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, and co-developer of the low-cost Corbevax COVID-19 vaccine. Mann is a climate scientist at the University of Pennsylvania, known for the "hockey stick" temperature record. Both have been targets of sustained campaigns against their work, which gives the book first-hand authority.

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