
Put a well-known vaccine scientist, a controversial podcast host, an anti-vaccine presidential candidate, and a couple of billionaires in a room—a.k.a. a Twitter thread—what could possibly go wrong?
Over the weekend, Dr. Peter Hotez, the co-director of the Texas Children’s Center for Vaccine Development (CVD) and author of the forthcoming book Preventing the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-Science, tweeted a Vice article titled "Spotify Has Stopped Even Sort of Trying to Stem Joe Rogan's Vaccine Misinformation." It came after podcast host Joe Rogan brought presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on his show to vocalize his anti-vaccine stance.