Gavin Newsom signs bill to punish doctors who spread ‘Covid misinformation’ – IOTW Report

Gavin Newsom signs bill to punish doctors who spread ‘Covid misinformation’

“Science and medicine are constantly evolving by challenging the status quo”

Leigh Dundas, human rights attorney

PM

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law Friday that will allow for physicians to be disciplined for “misinformation” and “disinformation” in relation to Covid, sparking a protest at the State Capitol.

Newsom defended his approval of the bill, AB 2098, permitting the state medical board to punish doctors for infractions.

“I am signing this bill because it is narrowly tailored to apply only to those egregious instances in which a licensee is acting with malicious intent or clearly deviating from the required standard of care while interacting directly with a patient under their care,” the progressive governor wrote in his signing message, reported Epoch Times.

According to the bill, introduced by Democratic Assemblyman Evan Low,  “misinformation” is “false information that is contradicted by contemporary scientific consensus contrary to the standard of care,” while “disinformation” means “misinformation that the licensee deliberately disseminated with malicious intent or an intent to mislead.”

Newsom acknowledged that while other similar bills may negatively impact doctors’ abilities to effectively communicate with their patience, this law is safe.

“I am concerned about the chilling effect other potential laws may have on physicians and surgeons who need to be able to effectively talk to their patients about the risks and benefits of treatments for a disease that appeared in just the last few years,” he wrote. “However, I am confident that discussing emerging ideas or treatments including the subsequent risks and benefits does not constitute misinformation or disinformation under this bill’s criteria.”

Media personality and Covid vaccine mandate critic Drew Pinsky, commonly known as Dr. Drew, expressed his skepticism on his live show.

“If I say anything other than standard empty slogans as specified by the academic and bureaucratic structure… that would qualify as misinformation,” he said, giving an example of what he might say to a younger patient who may benefit from natural immunity over vaccination. more

20 Comments on Gavin Newsom signs bill to punish doctors who spread ‘Covid misinformation’

  1. “However, I am confident that discussing emerging ideas or treatments including the subsequent risks and benefits does not constitute misinformation or disinformation under this bill’s criteria.”

    Killing hundreds of thousands of people with fake vaccines, and withholding proper care, is disinformation?

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  2. Yea, because Doctors don’t know shit but politicians are experts on communicable diseases and manufactured viruses. I had a great bunch of med professionals get me through some recent shit here in Cali. Had a Radioligist, brilliant woman in her mid forties just say, fuck it, got enough money, I’m out. My general practitioner, a brilliant guy, older guy, but they’ve convinced him to retire. My ENT, I call him Doogie Howser. If you saw him. He’s up for the fight. I wish him luck. This is Litrards destroying the health Care in California.

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  3. This is an extremely dangerous law. Some doctor friends have spoken out against it. One was denied use of HCQ for an indication that was not covid (although she treated thousands with covid too). HCQ, and Ivermectin as well, are decades-old drugs that are very safe, and yet even without this law the state banned its use. Science, indeed.

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  4. “… or clearly deviating from the required standard of care …”
    “… or clearly deviating from the required totalitarian narrative …”

    Fixed it for ya, Noisome.
    Ever heard of the First Amendment?
    Those who violate the Bill of Rights to advance nefarious agendas (Globaloney CoVid Hoax, Globaloney Warming Hoax, “Green” Energy Scam, CRT Racist Hoax, as instances) are Traitors.
    Traitors need to be hanged.

    mortem tyrannis
    izlamo delenda est …

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  5. Bout time! Everyone pushing lies about covid should be locked up & given large fines. There is a “certain” group of people who live for spreading their shit far & wide. Filthy disgusting animals.

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  6. More Communist creep. They couldn’t care less about Covid, it is just the vehicle to get their foot in the door for control over what we say. Covid today, tomorrow it spreads (like Covid)! The noose is tightening… if we let it!

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  7. That’s because political criminals like Nuisom, who has pockets full of every body else’s money, believe they “…own the ‘Science’ and the ‘consensus'”…at least, they assume such.

    Ask them, sometime, if they ever attended college and passed one or more science courses (physics, advanced biology, physical chemistry, et al.) with a grade better than average.

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