Calls Grow to Discipline Doctors Spreading Virus Misinformation

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The Federation of State Medical Boards, which represents the groups that license and discipline doctors, recommended last month that states consider action against doctors who share false medical claims.

FILE - In this May 21, 2021 file photo, a person holds a mask while walking outside in Philadelphia. New evidence showing the delta variant is as contagious as chickenpox has prompted U.S. health officials to consider changing advice on how the nation fights the coronavirus. Recommending masks for everyone and requiring vaccines for doctors and other health care providers are among measures the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering, Friday, July 30. Dr.

“When a doctor speaks, people pay attention,” said Dr. Humayun Chaudhry, president of the Federation of State Medical Boards. “The title of being a physician lends credibility to what people say to the general public. That’s why it is so important that these doctors don’t spread misinformation.” “Publicly spreading false COVID-19 information may be considered unprofessional conduct and could be grounds for disciplinary action,” Carlos Villatoro, a spokesman for the Medical Board of California, said in a statement.

In the video that spread widely this month, Stock is shown speaking to a Mt. Vernon Community School Corporation board meeting in Fortville, just east of Indianapolis. Standing with his back to the camera, and speaking at a rapid, nearly monotone clip, he opens his statement with the line, “Everything being recommended by the CDC is actually contrary to the rules of science.

People shared his talk on alternative video platforms like Bitchute and Rumble, and on blogs like “Hancock County Patriots” and “DJHJ Media.” One version of the video on Twitter, shared by a onetime adviser to former President Donald Trump, collected over 6 million views. Another was shared by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.

 

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Yahoo The fools that take this should then go to a veterinary hospital when they are dying. Leave hospital beds alone for the people that actually need it

That already should have happened. Those doctors are called quacks and are dangerous since they are in a position of authority

They’re quacks if they don’t condemn and subscribe to false claims. But yes, share false claims so patient knows what to avoid.

I will believe it if they hold Fauci accountable first.

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