Joe Rogan conveyed a challenge by antivax crank turned Presidential candidate RFK Jr. to vaccine scientist Dr. Peter Hotez to "debate me, bro!" In the week since, wealthy right wingers have added money to the inducement, and through an awful op-ed by Ross Douthat this weekend, even the New York Times has amped up the pressure for a "debate" about vaccines with RFK Jr. It looks like it's time to revisit the topic of why it's a bad idea to debate science deniers like RFK Jr. sooner than I had anticipated or wanted.
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