COMING IN 2026-27
Texas Fever Frontier: How Deadly Epidemics Shaped the Lone Star State and Will Determine America’s Destiny
Publisher MIT PRESS
2025
Science Under Siege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces that Threaten Our World
Page Count 368 pages
Publisher Public Affairs
ISBN-139781541705494
A necessary and propulsive argument that offers optimism in the face of one of the world’s most destructive forces.
Pursuing science and truth in the age of disinformation.
On the tail of a historic deadly pandemic, in the midst of a climate crisis that threatens the world, perhaps the greatest danger is the overwhelming rise of disinformation that threatens to crush and diminish science that might save us. With that, two renowned scientists—climatologist Mann and pediatrician and global health expert Hotez—who are veterans of the disinformation wars have come together to create a work that seeks to provide a way out. The authors identify what they call “the p’s”—five key forces creating a dangerous modern realm of anti-science: “the plutocrats, the authoritarian petrostates (assisted by polluters and the politicians who advocate for them), the ‘pros’ who use their professional (or in some cases scholarly) credentials to deceive or promote unsupported contrarian views, the propagandists who amplify them on social media and other venues, and, increasingly, the press, including even the mainstream press.” The narrative reveals, in compelling detail, how these forces weave a complicated web of public deception and political danger in the face of some of humanity’s greatest challenges. With clear-eyed prose moving through chapters that explain each of these actors, the authors provide a clear, persuasive road map to fight back against the forces that diminish and dismiss science. The result is an empowering work in a world that can often feel lost to untruths. “While there is urgency—unlike any we’ve ever known—there is still agency,” they write. “We can still avert disaster if we can understand the nature of the mounting anti-science threat and formulate a strategy to counter it. ”A necessary and propulsive argument that offers optimism in the face of one of the world’s most destructive forces.
2023
The Deadly Rise of Anti-science A Scientist’s Warning
https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/33293/deadly-rise-anti-science
2022
Forgotten People, Forgotten Diseases: The Neglected Tropical Diseases and Their Impact on Global Health and Development, 3rd Edition
2021
Preventing the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-science
2021
https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/preventing-next-pandemic
Poverty and the Impact of COVID-19: The Blue-Marble Health Approach
2018
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/75688
Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel’s Autism: My Journey as a Vaccine Scientist, Pediatrician, and Autism Dad
2016
https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/vaccines-did-not-cause-rachels-autism
Blue Marble Health: An Innovative Plan to Fight Diseases of the Poor amid Wealth
Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD, DSc (hon) 
When will “The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: How Health Freedom Propaganda Endangers the World” be available?
Hi Joan! It will be this summer, maybe around the beginning of August–more info soon