Peter J. Hotez > Quotes

“If you choose to use it, you have enormous power to be an advocate as a scientist.”
― Peter Hotez

“As part of the evaluation she underwent an EEG (electroencephalogram) that revealed an interesting finding of some right-sided temporal lobe spike discharges, for which she received tegretol for a time, possibly with some improvement. But doing blood draws to assess tegretol levels became a monumental task because of her noncompliant behavior, and eventually it got to the point where it appeared tegretol had stopped producing any tangible benefits.”
― Peter J. Hotez, Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel's Autism: My Journey as a Vaccine Scientist, Pediatrician, and Autism Dad

“Everyone is entitled to conservative views, and in many cases even extremist viewpoints, but please do not embrace vaccine refusal or other aspects of health freedom propaganda, because it will only lead to losses of human life.”
― Peter J. Hotez, The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist's Warning