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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,459 posts)
Mon Oct 10, 2022, 08:51 PM Oct 2022

Column: In threat to public health, Florida publishes flawed and unscientific anti-vaccine 'study'

The spread of anti-vaccine misinformation and disinformation has become one of the defining public health challenges of our time — so dangerous that it prompted the California legislature to make the practice grounds for revoking a doctor's license.

But what can we do when this pseudoscientific claptrap comes from an agency of a state government, dressed up as a public health recommendation?

The question arises from a new vaccine recommendation issued by Joseph Ladapo, Florida's surgeon general. Ladapo has been labeled a "quack" and a "COVID crank." If there has been any doubt that these labels are justified, they should be dispelled by his latest action.

This is the first time that we’ve seen a state government weaponize bad science to spread anti-vaccine disinformation as official policy.

David Gorski, pseudoscience debunker

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/column-threat-public-health-florida-205241065.html
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Column: In threat to public health, Florida publishes flawed and unscientific anti-vaccine 'study' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2022 OP
well larwdem Oct 2022 #1
DeSatan has made cruelty and ignorance a badge of honor,-- Timeflyer Oct 2022 #2
CORRECT Skittles Oct 2022 #3

Timeflyer

(2,044 posts)
2. DeSatan has made cruelty and ignorance a badge of honor,--
Tue Oct 11, 2022, 07:34 AM
Oct 2022

and labels it "freedom" to give his base an ego tingle.

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