Olavist, an advisor to Bolsonaro, says there is a "fetishization of science" in the fight against the coronavirus.
A follower of astrologer Olavo de Carvalho and advisor on international affairs to the Jair Bolsonaro government, Filipe G. Martins criticized the WHO for canceling trials of the drug chloroquine in Covid-19 patients.
Luisa Fragão, Fórum Magazine - President Jair Bolsonaro's advisor for international affairs, Filipe G. Martins, went to social media on Friday morning (29) to criticize the World Health Organization (WHO) for having cancelled its tests with chloroquine.
According to Martins, studies that question the use of the drug to treat patients with coronavirus treat science as a "fetish." He also says that the WHO uncritically supports such conclusions.
"This is just another dubious study to be uncritically endorsed by the WHO and a number of institutions and people who claim to value science but who repeatedly demonstrate their inability to critically analyze what is presented to them under the guise of 'science'," wrote Bolsonaro's advisor, a student of the astrologer Olavo de Carvalho.
"Ultimately, the attitude of those who act this way is nothing more than a fetishization of science, an aesthetic attachment to symbols that refer to science, combined with ignorance of what true science is and an appeal to authority, in order to evade responsibility for their decisions," he continued.