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Bertalan Meskó, MD, PhD
Director of The Medical Futurist Institute (Keynote Speaker, Author & Futurist)
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I just received this death threat about how this person wants to break into my home, steal my data, and kill me for the topics I cover on medicalfuturist.com . I know similar things have happened to many of us, including Eric Topol and recently Anthony Fauci too. It, of course, shouldn't be part of a researcher's job and I have never heard my scientific peers and supervisors complain about this. So either it's happening now because of how some of us live our professional lives online, OR because of how many scientific and medical issues have been politicized lately during the pandemic. When people turn science into politics, they authorize themselves to turn facts into opinions. Maybe with the popularity science is gaining also comes the mistrust that politics receive? This is more dangerous than any death threat from a lunatic. The question is, what should we do?
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