Column: The right wing gets its knives out for California's new medical misinformation law

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Column: The right wing gets its knives out for California's new medical misinformation law
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'COVID has undeniably been a massive threat to public health. Its devastating effect has only been magnified by medical professionals who minimize the threat and politicize anti-COVID measures such as vaccinations,' writes columnist hiltzikm.

Warnings of retribution, pictures of guillotines — anti-vaxxers are becoming more unhinged in their fight against pandemic policies.

Johnson’s co-author was Pierre Kory, a physician who has been promoting the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin as a COVID treatment despite painstaking scientific studies showing that it hasThe presence of Johnson and Kory in the chorus of critics brings the attacks on the California law full circle: It’s part of the movement to undermine medical authority by making science-based medical regulation appear politicized.

The statute defines misinformation as “false information that is contradicted by contemporary scientific consensus contrary to the standard of care.” These include “changing guidelines on ventilating patients, the use of high dose steroids in hospitalized patients, and identifying previously unknown or overlooked safety issues with some novel antiviral therapies,” Kheriaty declared. “As with the rest of medical science, yesterday’s minority opinion often becomes today’s standard of care.”

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