I've seen Dr. Peter Hotez come out ready to flatten "anti-vaxxers" because we are "anti-science" & spreading "dangerous misinformation." But he doesn't use any science to make his points. Instead, he chooses inflammatory language, ridicule, and personal attacks. His temperament is completely unsuited to heading a major government agency. He's also deeply embedded with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. I find he plays this mild-mannered professor who only works to find cures for forgotten tropical diseases, but that's an act. He is shrewd, calculating, and power-hungry. He's also in deep denial about what caused his daughter's autism, probably sparking his anger at Mary.
this is a horrible dangerous man who wants to criminalize everyone who disagrees with him. when i was in college- long ago but not that long ago- we learned that the real true only certain cause of autism was a schizophrenogenic mother who rejected her baby at birth, causing the infant to turn inward.
when mothers protested that they loved their babies, wanted them and waited with rapt anticipation for their birth, the highly credentialed "expert" would say that, while they thought they loved their baby, unconsciously they didn't, as only an advanced degreed person like themselves could know without any objective tests. this "cause" was actually in the psych textbooks of the day (the early 70's).
i remember thinking "this is bullshit" and raised my hand in class to ask "i suppose there are no schizophrenogenic fathers?"
imagine the guilt these poor women bore, imagine the ready made excuses their husbands had to divorce them, leaving them with the full burden of a damaged child.
we don't say that anymore, which i guess is good because there's a hell of a lot more autism now than there was when i was in college and these poor mothers have enough on their plates without the imaginary unconscious guilt.
now we tell them "it's not the vaccines." we're very good at saying what it isn't; not so good at looking at what it might be. but we were wrong then and possibly wrong now. hubris is the Achilles heel of medicine and why i got as far away as i could from where my college degree would have led me.
the ubiquity of cell phones probably helped end the mother blaming. parents now have video footage of their children before and after, which proves that the children weren't "born this way" and that there is a distinct before and after.
If you have not seen the old documentary, "Refrigerator Mothers" it is a must. What they did to the mothers that came before us are human rights abuses.
thank you. i watched that documentary which was incredibly sad. i was most interested in the artist, who is still active and quite famous although her wikipedia bio says nothing about her child
i'm in south carolina and i'm curious as to what you want and why, not that i have any political contacts.
i was "let go" from my job of 40 years as the costume director of the Spoleto Arts Festival in Charleston, SC because i wouldn't take the vaccine. if there are any lawyers out there wanting to take on what could be a high profile lawsuit, i'd like to hear from them
Hotez's response to your colleague's letter is almost unbelievably petty. He's obviously a deeply frightened, mentally unstable individual, and the thought of him holding any position of power over Americans should fill any sane person with alarm. I do have some hope that, like Nina Jankowicz for Disinformation Czar, he may prove to be too much even for the idiots who make such appointments.
How anyone could read those two letters and come out on the side of Hotez is beyond my understanding! Every single time Hotez tweets any ridiculous thing about infectious diseases, pandemics, or vaccines, someone should respond by posting those two letters, together. It would expose him for who he really is.
It is absurd that he would claim that it was a "letter of intimidation," that any "threats" were made, or that there was any "sanctimony" involved but his own. And for him to begin his letter by saying he was "disgusted" by hers is outrageous, seeing that she should have been the one using that term about the way he had publicly slandered her and her colleagues. But she refrained and kept it professional.
I've seen Dr. Peter Hotez come out ready to flatten "anti-vaxxers" because we are "anti-science" & spreading "dangerous misinformation." But he doesn't use any science to make his points. Instead, he chooses inflammatory language, ridicule, and personal attacks. His temperament is completely unsuited to heading a major government agency. He's also deeply embedded with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. I find he plays this mild-mannered professor who only works to find cures for forgotten tropical diseases, but that's an act. He is shrewd, calculating, and power-hungry. He's also in deep denial about what caused his daughter's autism, probably sparking his anger at Mary.
this is a horrible dangerous man who wants to criminalize everyone who disagrees with him. when i was in college- long ago but not that long ago- we learned that the real true only certain cause of autism was a schizophrenogenic mother who rejected her baby at birth, causing the infant to turn inward.
when mothers protested that they loved their babies, wanted them and waited with rapt anticipation for their birth, the highly credentialed "expert" would say that, while they thought they loved their baby, unconsciously they didn't, as only an advanced degreed person like themselves could know without any objective tests. this "cause" was actually in the psych textbooks of the day (the early 70's).
i remember thinking "this is bullshit" and raised my hand in class to ask "i suppose there are no schizophrenogenic fathers?"
imagine the guilt these poor women bore, imagine the ready made excuses their husbands had to divorce them, leaving them with the full burden of a damaged child.
we don't say that anymore, which i guess is good because there's a hell of a lot more autism now than there was when i was in college and these poor mothers have enough on their plates without the imaginary unconscious guilt.
now we tell them "it's not the vaccines." we're very good at saying what it isn't; not so good at looking at what it might be. but we were wrong then and possibly wrong now. hubris is the Achilles heel of medicine and why i got as far away as i could from where my college degree would have led me.
the ubiquity of cell phones probably helped end the mother blaming. parents now have video footage of their children before and after, which proves that the children weren't "born this way" and that there is a distinct before and after.
If you have not seen the old documentary, "Refrigerator Mothers" it is a must. What they did to the mothers that came before us are human rights abuses.
https://youtu.be/0ayzc6_DzI8?t=32
Not just that they didn't love their children, that they hated their children and wanted them to die.
Bettleheim compared mothers to Nazis who ran the concentration camps.
There is no way to make these women whole.
And now they still blame the mother, and say, "it was your genes." Ask which genes, and they can't tell you.
And good for asking about the dads.
thank you. i'll watch the film. these guys do love the nazi accusation
thank you. i watched that documentary which was incredibly sad. i was most interested in the artist, who is still active and quite famous although her wikipedia bio says nothing about her child
Now they accuse moms looking for treatments to help their autistic children of not loving them or wishing they didn't exist.
The Number One trick of an abuser is to attack, smear and accuse. Trying to make others not believe those who disagree. He is awful
Ginger, good to hear from you.
Wanted to point out that our mutual friend, attorney Mary Holland, was never the head of the NYU Law School but she taught and did research there.
I need political contacts in South Carolina--can you call or write me, asap?
Meryl
Sorry! That should say the head of graduate legal studies. Will fix.
Will send an email to ya!
i'm in south carolina and i'm curious as to what you want and why, not that i have any political contacts.
i was "let go" from my job of 40 years as the costume director of the Spoleto Arts Festival in Charleston, SC because i wouldn't take the vaccine. if there are any lawyers out there wanting to take on what could be a high profile lawsuit, i'd like to hear from them
Hotez's response to your colleague's letter is almost unbelievably petty. He's obviously a deeply frightened, mentally unstable individual, and the thought of him holding any position of power over Americans should fill any sane person with alarm. I do have some hope that, like Nina Jankowicz for Disinformation Czar, he may prove to be too much even for the idiots who make such appointments.
How anyone could read those two letters and come out on the side of Hotez is beyond my understanding! Every single time Hotez tweets any ridiculous thing about infectious diseases, pandemics, or vaccines, someone should respond by posting those two letters, together. It would expose him for who he really is.
It is absurd that he would claim that it was a "letter of intimidation," that any "threats" were made, or that there was any "sanctimony" involved but his own. And for him to begin his letter by saying he was "disgusted" by hers is outrageous, seeing that she should have been the one using that term about the way he had publicly slandered her and her colleagues. But she refrained and kept it professional.