Hotez says he’s glad Mann is fighting back in court. But he doesn’t think a bunch of lawsuits is a sustainable solution. And he says he wants to keep working in the lab.

“We have a new human hookworm vaccine that’ll come online soon,” he says, “That’s how I want to spend my time. I don’t want to spend my day making cold calls to plaintiff lawyers.”

Brandolini’s law comes to mind. It’s such a ridiculous waste of time and money but these people are funded by billionaires to waste our time and money with FUD so that we never get around to regulating them.

Bankrupt the fuckers and then maybe we will all get some peace. G’luck Prof Mann. And any other near/in retirement academics who are willing to waste their last few years on using the courts to get the word out.