RFK, Jr. Challenges Peter Hotez To A Debate

Written by John Leake on June 24, 2023. Posted in Current News

Joe Rogan, Steve Kirsch, Bill Ackman, et al. offer vaccine fetishist total of $1.5 million to debate the presidential candidate

Following RFK Jr.’s appearance on Joe Rogan last week, prominent vaccine fetishist Peter Hotez made snarky comments on Twitter about the presidential candidate.

Joe Rogan responded by offering to donate $100,000 to Hotez’s favorite charity if he will debate RFK, Jr. on the Joe Rogan Experience. Mr. Kennedy then tweeted a polite invitation to Dr. Hotez, inviting him to the debate.

Steve Kirsch then offered to add $100,00, while world famous hedge fund guru Bill Ackman offered 150 k.

The spectacle of prominent rich men throwing a ton of dough at Hotez seems to have unleashed a contagion that spread to other big money guys who rushed into the melee with open checkbooks ready to fire.

These include world kickboxing champion Andrew Tate, who offered 500 k, and Wall Street trader Nick Mugalli, who tossed 250 k into the hat, for an aggregate sum of 1.5 million and rising.

Hotez has responded to all of this lucre—promised to his favorite charity—with a series of feeble tweets, but no acceptance of the challenge. Of his many dodges, my favorite thus far is:

With this perfect piece of humbug, Hotez has proven that he is the most formidable weenie in contemporary public affairs.

Why doesn’t he accept the challenge and discuss the matter with Mr. Kennedy?

In his 2019 Joe Rogan interview, he claimed that RFK, Jr. is a cunning lawyer, while he is a just man of science—implying that he’s only interested in apprehending reality and therefore unversed in the art of clever rhetoric.

Such assertions are reminiscent of the Unfrozen Cave Man Lawyer on Saturday Night Live, who always pled to the jury that he is just a cave man, and therefore without understanding of the modern world’s guileful complexity.

hough I think Rogan, Kirsch, Ackman, et al. are all cool ballers, I wish they would offer the $1.5 million to me to debate RFK. Jr., because I would do a far better job than Hotez of elucidating the reality of vaccines in the manner of a Platonic dialogue with the presidential candidate.

Hotez is a propagandist for whom vaccines are an article of faith. In none of his multiple Joe Rogan interviews has he made a single illuminating statement about them.

Though I do not share his (professed) blind faith in vaccine technology, I would be far more skilled at articulating WHY American scientists have embraced them with such fervor—a fervor that traces back to the 1721 smallpox outbreak in Boston, when the eminent Puritan minister, Cotton Mather, passionately advocated inoculation.

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