Thomas, you prove you have no understanding of American politics. Rand Paul is a licensed medical doctor. Republicans as anti science and low education levels? You as usual paint one party as the cause. And as usual you have your American politics backwards. Republicans support wall street, the educated, while democrats support blue collar, uneducated. Minorities are the leading cause of vaccine hesitancy, they vote blue!!!!!
Paul is pushing a party-political point - as you well know. Equally - you well know that party's base is anti-science and also anti-expert. Basically - anti Fauci.
It used to be the case that Democrat support was from the poor, Republican from the rich, and that richer => better educated. No longer.
Both in the US and UK there has been a realignment of politics where the left aligns with those who are educated and more cosmopolitan, the right aligns with those who are less well educated.
In fact left/right are no longer as important as culture identification - educated/internationalist vs uneducated/localist.
For example Trump's political position is strongly uneducated/localist but also quite left-wing economically. Cheney far to the right of him.
It is thoroughly confusing, and leaves no political home for those who are right-wing and side with the well educated (Cheney).