Dr. Peter Hotez Blasts Fox News, Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham for Vax Disinformation: ‘Authoritarian Effort to Discredit Science’

Dr. Peter Hotez, a regular Covid-19 commentator on MSNBC, blasted Fox News for vaccine disinformation on some of their top shows.

Tucker Carlson has continued to cast doubt over the effectiveness of the vaccines, and this week he eagerly touted Nicki Minaj’s tweet alleging an unproven side effect of the shot.

MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace expressed disgust with Carlson for still “disseminating disinformation,” amid the news that 1 in 500 Americans have died of Covid-19.

She asked Hotez, “Are you discouraged by how much heat and energy is behind the right-wing disinformation campaign being waged all day, every day?”

Hotez responded by saying the U.S. is likely to reach 675,000 Americans dead of Covid-19 next week, a significant number because that’s how many people died of the flu pandemic in the U.S. 100 years ago.

“So we’re about to exceed that.”

He went on to blast Fox News, particularly hosts like Carlson and Laura Ingraham:

This is death by anti-science. And a lot of this has been coming out of the nighttime Fox News anchors, this disinformation. You know, I’m often asked about Tucker Carlson or the others, Laura Ingraham, I don’t know. What I say is, look, I don’t think this has anything to do with the individual Fox anchors. This is coming from the top. This is a war of aggression against science and scientists coming out of Fox News as part of a larger authoritarian effort to discredit science and scientists. I don’t really know what the motivation is, but it’s having just a devastating effect.

This week Mediaite obtained a memo from Fox Corporation announcing that 90 percent of all employees are vaccinated, and anyone who isn’t will have to comply with a daily testing requirement.

You can watch above, via MSNBC.