Rep. Jonathan Stickland told a a prominent vaccinologist to 'mind your own business.'
An anti-vaxxer Texas lawmaker is facing criticism for attacking a prominent vaccinologist and branding inoculations “sorcery.”
“You are bought and paid for by the biggest special interest in politics,” Stickland wrote to Hotez. “Do our state a favor and mind your own business. Parental rights mean more to us than your self enriching ‘science.’” Other Twitter users began sending messages of support to Hotez, who later thanked all those who rallied around him. “Never thought I would see a Texas legislator launch an unfounded personal attack. Time for some House ethics rules ,” he wrote.
Stickland, whose Twitter profile says he is a “Christian Conservative Liberty Loving Republican,” engaged in arguments with several other Twitter users off the back of his debate with Hotez. In one, the representative asked a user, “Vaccines are dangerous,don’t you agree?” and in another attacked “another guy in a white coat who thinks he’s a better parent than everyone else!”
More than 500 of those infected had not been vaccinated against the disease, while more than one third of cases involved children under the age of 5.
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