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1/5: I’ve severely criticized Dr Atlas since his appointment, but make no mistake he was only one of several mouthpieces for a far reaching and deliberate antiscience disinformation initiative led by the White House https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dr-scott-atlas-resigns-special-adviser-trump-coronavirus
2/5: It’s major tenets: 1) downplaying severity of the pandemic, 2) attributing COVID19 deaths to other causes, 3) fake herd immunity, 4) discrediting masks, 5) discrediting scientists (including me), 6) spectacularizing their abilities, 7) hydroxychloroquine
3/5: Soon other “populist” (almost fascist, but here I need advice from the political scientists) regimes adopted similar tactics, Bolsanaro-Brasil, Duterte-Philippines, Ortega-Nicaragua, mostly far right, with devastating consequences, especially for low income essential workers
4/5: Their supporters? In US linked to far right wing extremist groups under the banner of “health freedom” “medical freedom” coming out of Texas and Oklahoma, I was the obvious target also national groups led by RFKJR who really went after me, my family, then it globalized...
5/5: In terms of globalization, the Russians, Russia 
Today, launched “weaponized health communication”, but we learned from CBS other news outlets how the Berlin protests with RFKJr brought on QAnon, stormed German Parliament, now protests in London https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1286457920301581
Today, launched “weaponized health communication”, but we learned from CBS other news outlets how the Berlin protests with RFKJr brought on QAnon, stormed German Parliament, now protests in London https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1286457920301581
I have a paper under review attempting to spell out this whole dark chapter. We can trace our modern Antiscience movement to forces going back much earlier. Hoping my experience in hand-to-hand combat with antivaccine groups might make up for my deficiencies as science historian
