Abstract
There is a troubling new expansion of antiscience aggression in the United States. It's arising from far-right extremism, including some elected members of the US Congress and conservative news outlets that target prominent biological scientists fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
MeSH terms
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Aggression*
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Anti-Vaccination Movement / statistics & numerical data
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Attitude to Health
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COVID-19 / epidemiology
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COVID-19 / prevention & control*
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COVID-19 / virology
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Humans
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Pandemics / prevention & control
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Politics
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Research Personnel / statistics & numerical data*
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SARS-CoV-2 / isolation & purification*
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SARS-CoV-2 / physiology
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Science / statistics & numerical data*
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Science / trends
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Social Media / statistics & numerical data
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United States / epidemiology
Grants and funding
The author received no specific funding for this work.