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COVID-19: Medical board deletes anti-misinformation policy amid GOP pressure
Source: Tennesseean
Tennessees medical licensing board voted Tuesday to delete a policy opposing coronavirus misinformation from its website due to fears a powerful conservative lawmaker would otherwise dissolve the board and replace its members.
The policy, unanimously adopted by the Board of Medical Examiners in September, establishes that doctors who spread demonstrably untrue information about COVID-19 vaccines could have their licenses suspended or potentially revoked. Members voted 7 to 3 to delete but not rescind the policy.
The deletion was spurred by Rep. John Ragan, R-Oak Ridge, a co-chair of the Joint Government Operations Committee, who insisted board members don't have the authority to create a new disciplinary offense without the approval of lawmakers on his committee.
Over the past two months, Ragan sent at least three letters pressuring the board to delete the policy or appear before the committee to explain itself. Ragan later made a "threat" to dissolve the board in behind-the-scenes discussions with the Department of Health, according to a letter from a department attorney obtained by The Tennessean.
The policy, unanimously adopted by the Board of Medical Examiners in September, establishes that doctors who spread demonstrably untrue information about COVID-19 vaccines could have their licenses suspended or potentially revoked. Members voted 7 to 3 to delete but not rescind the policy.
The deletion was spurred by Rep. John Ragan, R-Oak Ridge, a co-chair of the Joint Government Operations Committee, who insisted board members don't have the authority to create a new disciplinary offense without the approval of lawmakers on his committee.
Over the past two months, Ragan sent at least three letters pressuring the board to delete the policy or appear before the committee to explain itself. Ragan later made a "threat" to dissolve the board in behind-the-scenes discussions with the Department of Health, according to a letter from a department attorney obtained by The Tennessean.
Read more: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/health/2021/12/07/medical-board-deletes-anti-misinformation-policy-amid-gop-pressure/6416959001/
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COVID-19: Medical board deletes anti-misinformation policy amid GOP pressure (Original Post)
brooklynite
Dec 2021
OP
misinformation: the speaker doesn't know it's wrong (ignorant), but says it anyway (careless)
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
Dec 2021
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Efilroft Sul
(3,571 posts)1. So much for that "do no harm" thing mentioned by Hippocrates.
Girard442
(6,047 posts)2. In keeping with Rep. Ragan's philosophy on misinformation...
...I will soon announce which of his staff and extended family enjoy orgies with goats.
Unlike COVID misinformation, it won't kill anybody.
groundloop
(11,482 posts)4. Orgies with goats...... damn, I bet TN voters need to hear about that!!!!!!
James48
(4,410 posts)11. Don't let them hear about the goats-
They may just rush to try and get in on it.
keithbvadu2
(36,305 posts)3. propaganda to be a new accepted norm
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,530 posts)5. misinformation: the speaker doesn't know it's wrong (ignorant), but says it anyway (careless)
disinformation: the speaker knows it's wrong, but says it intentionally to make the recipient act on it to their detriment and the disseminator's benefit (propaganda, malicious)
The MSM usually uses the first term when in actuality the second is true.
keithbvadu2
(36,305 posts)6. and then comes the excuse - 'misspoke'.
dexdah
(45 posts)7. Or, 'it was just a joke.'
keithbvadu2
(36,305 posts)8. I liked your explanation so much that I stole it.
I liked your explanation so much that I stole it.
(Don't know how to spell plagiarize.)
https://democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=16127284
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,530 posts)9. You have my permission to use my words anyway you see fit.
You made my day.
p.s., your spelling of "plagiarize" is spot-on.
keithbvadu2
(36,305 posts)10. Spel chek
rockfordfile
(8,673 posts)12. GOP hates America and our fellow citizens.