In June, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired all 17 members of the CDC’s advisory committee . Kennedy’s anti-vaccine ideology has put him at odds with the scientific community – including Dr. Peter J. Hotez, a Texas-based vaccine researcher.

Hotez is professor of pediatrics and molecular virology and microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine and played a key role in developing the Covid-19 vaccine.

He talked with Think host Krys Boyd about how anti-science factions have hijacked the conversations about health and his many failed attempts to change Kennedy’s mind about vaccines. His book, written with Michael E. Mann, is " Science Under Siege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces that Threaten Our World ."

Below are excerpts from the interview. To

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