A Triple Threat to Humanity: Climate Change, Pandemics, and Anti-Science by Michael E. Mann and Peter J. Hotez

Mann and Hotez identify three interconnected threats to humanity: climate change, pandemics, and anti-science campaigns and highlight the increasing environmental and health challenges exacerbated by misinformation and political attacks on science, urging immediate global action to combat these existential risks. Read this article and find accompanying references at: https://skepticalinquirer.org/2024/12/a-triple-threat-to-humanity-climate-change-pandemics-and-anti-science/ About the Authors: Michael E. Mann, PhD, is Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania, with a secondary appointment in the Annenberg School for Communication. He also serves as vice provost for Climate Science, Policy, and Action and director of the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media (PCSSM). He contributed, with other Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) authors, to the award of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He's author of numerous books, including Dire Predictions, The Madhouse Effect, The New Climate War, Our Fragile Moment, and Science under Siege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces That Threaten Our World (forthcoming and coauthored with Peter J. Hotez). Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD, is dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine, where he is also the codirector of the Texas Children's Center for Vaccine Development (CVD) and Texas Children's Hospital Endowed Chair of Tropical Pediatrics. He is also University Professor at Baylor University. In 2022, Hotez and his colleague, Dr. Maria Elena Bottazzi, were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for "their work to develop and distribute a low-cost COVID-19 vaccine to people of the world without patent limitation." His books include Blue Marble Health; Poverty and the Impact of COVID-19; Preventing the Next Pandemic; Forgotten People, Forgotten Diseases; and The Deadly Rise of Anti-science. Subscribe to Skeptical Inquirer: https://skepticalinquirer.org/subscribe/ Skeptical Inquirer Audio Edition is a production of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and the Center for Inquiry.