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Peter Hotez

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Peter Hotez & Eric Topol - Discuss “Science Under Siege” book

You would think all of this...

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Peter Hotez & Eric Topol - Discuss “Science Under Siege” book

would be mom and apple pie, but it goes up against these far-right libertarian ideologies, so they think, and it also hurts the wellness and influencer side

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Peter Hotez & Eric Topol - Discuss “Science Under Siege” book

industry, which is built on buying up what they can in bulk and jacking up the price and then selling it with telehealth visits.

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Peter Hotez & Eric Topol - Discuss “Science Under Siege” book

I mean, have you ever wondered why they're all antiparasitic drugs, hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, fenbendazole?

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Peter Hotez & Eric Topol - Discuss “Science Under Siege” book

It's because there's a bucket of it.

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Peter Hotez & Eric Topol - Discuss “Science Under Siege” book

You can buy it cheap.

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Peter Hotez & Eric Topol - Discuss “Science Under Siege” book

You can then

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Peter Hotez & Eric Topol - Discuss “Science Under Siege” book

jack up the price, repackage it, and sell it with a tele-office.

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Peter Hotez & Eric Topol - Discuss “Science Under Siege” book

It's as straightforward as that.

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Peter Hotez & Eric Topol - Discuss “Science Under Siege” book

Well, but it all makes sense because it's all about what they can make money.

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Peter Hotez & Eric Topol - Discuss “Science Under Siege” book

Since they can't make money off vaccines, they certainly can't off of our low-cost vaccines for parasitic diseases and COVID.

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Peter Hotez & Eric Topol - Discuss “Science Under Siege” book

It's whatever they can make money off of.

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Peter Hotez & Eric Topol - Discuss “Science Under Siege” book

In some cases, it's jacking up the price of low-cost generics.

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Peter Hotez & Eric Topol - Discuss “Science Under Siege” book

Another example of that is you remember when –

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Peter Hotez & Eric Topol - Discuss “Science Under Siege” book

We had our we've been having our awful measles epidemic this year in West Texas.

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Peter Hotez & Eric Topol - Discuss “Science Under Siege” book

And Bobby Kennedy, our secretary of health and human services, gets up there on on the cable news channels.

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Peter Hotez & Eric Topol - Discuss “Science Under Siege” book

And he says, well, you can either get your measles, mumps, rubella vaccine, which is one of the most safest, effective vaccines we have.

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Peter Hotez & Eric Topol - Discuss “Science Under Siege” book

Or, you know, he points you as a viable alternative.

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Peter Hotez & Eric Topol - Discuss “Science Under Siege” book

He presents this useless cocktail of supplements of budesonide and vitamin A and clarithromycin and cod liver oil.

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Peter Hotez & Eric Topol - Discuss “Science Under Siege” book

And you're scratching your head and say, where does that come from?