OPINION | Joe Rogan offered a ton of money for scientist Peter Hotez to debate RFK Jr. about vaccines. Hotez should do it and expose RFK Jr. as the unhinged crank that he is.
would be like a “Jerry Springer episode.” Hassan said it would be like “a historian of World War II debating a Holocaust denier.” Debates between “experts and cranks,” Hasan said, can only “elevate the cranks.”. And I’m in agreement with Hotez and Hasan on the value of vaccines in general and COVID vaccination in particular. I’m triple-vaxxed and if the CDC ever recommends that people in my age group get a fourth, fifth, or six shot, I’ll get those too.
Not every scientist is going to be a gifted scientific communicator, of course. Some people who do amazing work in their labs are barely capable of explaining to their relatives what it is that they do for a living. But that actually makes itimportant that people like Hotez, who combine scientific expertise with a flair for communicating to the public, not shun debates with influential anti-vaxxers.Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Those who accept the Hasan Rule often point out that scientific truth isn’t decided by the outcome of public debates, and that the sort of debates researchers have with one another in the pages of peer-reviewed journals are very different from the sort of debate you might have on a podcast for an audience of millions of laymen. That’s all true. But none of it really has anything to do with why it’s important to directly engage with people like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
It's far from an exact analogy, but anti-vaccine views are already too popular for there to be any point in holding out hope, in June 2023, that these views will go away if scientists refuse to “elevate” anti-vaxxers by talking to them.
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