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 weve seen a state government weaponize bad science to spread anti-vaccine disinformation as official policy.
David Gorski, pseudoscience debunker
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