“Showing a pattern of confusion, Hotez also seems to misunderstand how the Internet works.

He says,

“If you’re a parent now, you put the word ‘vaccine’ into a search engine, you’re more likely to get garbage than real information. . . They’ve monetized the internet through advertising or selling fake nutritional supplements.”

It is true that you get more garbage than real information, but you get government-corporate-approved garbage. The top search results (if you are using a major search engine like Google) will always be the mainstream, milquetoast position on the topic you are looking for. I have a more nuanced view on vaccines and my own top search results include my local health agency, Wikipedia, the CDC, and the government of Canada website. As we have seen with Covid, search engines will censor opposing (wrongthink) voices, while promoting the mainstream narratives. Many governments even teamed up with Big Tech to censor and remove any content that did not adhere to the government-approved script.”