What should happen to doctors who spread misinformation?
Harvard Public Health magazine
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Medical boards rarely discipline physicians for spreading medical misinformation. In fact, less than one percent of offenses that were disciplined during the pandemic were related to false claims. As law professor Richard Saver researched the issue, he came to appreciate the complex and difficult situation faced by medical boards. Alternative methods of holding doctors accountable may be more effective, he says.
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Although it hasn’t been covered as often as it was during the pandemic, misinformation continues to be a huge problem facing public health. Check out our previous coverage on misinformation's effects on health, why countering false claims won't work in health emergencies, and how AI can be used in the fight against this problem.
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3 周I'm concerned about the adamant insistence of no relation between sequential immune challenges during the particularly 15-30 month period given findings of glial prolonged activation and sum greater than parts prolonging with sequential challenges. By the pathophysiological clear mechanisms of at least the ever-rising inflammatory versions - it's not even theoretically possible to argue such as not at least "directionally" increasing odds. Each of the shifts since 1983 - all either increasing inflammatory load in these critical times + decreasing recuperation time have lead to double digit YoY% increases in ASD. PLUS - the presentations correspondingly have shifted [% that is regression, M:F rates], etc. ALL map to that which is expected with inflammatory pathophysiology - e.g. across the map the changing findings point to the sequential challenges to the tee.
Dentist/Owner at Portside Family Dental ; Public Health Researcher
3 周If there is a recommended place to report someone, please let me know.