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dutch777

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2. Isn't promoting "bad medicine" a basis to revoke a medical license?
Sun Aug 15, 2021, 02:44 PM
Aug 2021

Anyone has the right to be a whackadoodle and espouse that publicly as long as no one is harmed. But when someone is a lawyer or a doctor or other licensed professional that should know what is provably true and what is false within their field of expertise, and clearly chooses to present what is false, they should be liable and at risk of discipline professionally to lose their license to practice. They should also be liable criminally and civilly if lay people follow their "expert" opinion or advice and suffer harm. There has to be consequences or this nonsense will only increasingly pollute the discourse and complicate arriving at timely and real solutions to issues.

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