Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD, is a professor of pediatrics and molecular virology and microbiology and the founding dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, where he is also the codirector of the Texas Children’s Center for Vaccine Development. He is the author of The Deadly Rise of Anti-science: A Scientist’s Warning, Preventing the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-science, and Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel’s Autism: My Journey as a Vaccine Scientist, Pediatrician, and Autism Dad.