Hotez Discusses Vaccinations and the Anti-Science Movement at 2023 LaMontagne Symposium
Internationally recognized physician-scientist and science author Peter J. Hotez, M.D., Ph.D. was the speaker for the 2023 LaMontagne Symposium that was held March 21, 2023 on the UT Campus.
Dr. Peter Hotez, center, with Gregg La Montagne (brother of John LaMontagne) and his wife, Carolyn Foote
Internationally recognized physician-scientist and science author Peter J. Hotez, M.D., Ph.D. was the speaker for the 2023 LaMontagne Symposium that was held March 21, 2023 on the UT Campus. The title of his lecture was Global Vaccinations and "The Anti-Poverty Vaccines": Science vs. Anti-Science.
Hotez, who is Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine and the Co-director of the Texas Children’s Center for Vaccine Development, spoke about how vaccines help reduce poverty and improve health outcomes. He then addressed how anti-science and anti-vaccine movements have become political. This has impacted the rate of disease and death, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic with the resistance to COVID vaccines in politically conservative areas. He urged scientists to find effective ways to address this resistance, rather than ignore the politics involved in the anti-vaccine and anti-science movements.
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