Dr. Peter Hotez takes the war against science very personally

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Dr. Peter Hotez at his Baylor College Of Medicine office in Houston, His new book, Science Under Siege, co-written with climate scientist Michael E. Mann, looks at the impact of the anti-science movement. (Sharon Steinmann | Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)Peter Hotez is a prominent vaccine scientist. But the incident inspired Hotez, the dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, to write his sixth book, Science Under Siege . He co-authored it with Michael E. Mann, a climate scientist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania. I just think that’s going to have a long-term damaging effect on the future of science.