Head Of Top Italian Health Research Institution Resigns Over Gov's Anti-Vaxxer Bullshit
The president of Italy's national health research organization, who announced that he was stepping down from his position in December, said Monday that the anti-scientific positions and xenophobic views of members of the current populist government were behind his resignation.
In an interview with Italian daily Corriere della Sera, Walter Ricciardi of Italy's National Institute of Health (ISS) said that, "Representatives of the government have endorsed unscientific or frankly anti-scientific positions on many issues." Ricciardi also said that after four and a half years at the institute, he had achieved the goals he set out to accomplish: the financial recovery, reorganization and relaunch of the ISS.
Italy is currently governed by the far-right Northern League and the populist Five Star Movement (FSM). Ricciardi aimed his criticism at League head and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, who is also the deputy prime minister.
"It's clear that when the deputy prime minister says that he, as a father, believes there are too many vaccines, and that they are useless and dangerous, that it's not just an unscientific approach. It's anti-scientific."
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