Antivax quackery and professional repercussions...
I have been cogitating recently on the ignoble career of Mayer Eisenstein (podcast forthcoming), home birth advocate and antivaccine spokesweirdo. He has an M.D. My question is, "How does someone like him keep it?"
I'm serious. Vaccination has moved beyond the realm of "professional judgment" to basic competency. At some point, when some asshat starts flaunting his M.D. to give credence to his asinine beliefs about vaccines, his credentials should be forfeit, shouldn't they?
Clearly, vaccination is one of the biggest boosters (heh) of public health over the last 150 years. It is responsible for eliminating a number of deadly diseases. Part of having it so good now is that people do not realize how bad it was before widespread vaccination programs.
I'm all for free speech, but I am also all for professional standards. Ideas? Comments?
HJ
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(Why is it people like him always happen to be pushing their own line of "natural" supplements and remedies? That alone sets off warning bells for me.)
While he does claim he wants people to educate themselves and choose whether or not to vaccinate he has an obvious antivax bias and I rather wonder how he'd react to parents who insisted on vaccinations.
I only wish all of these antivax woo-woos could be sent back in time to see all of the people dying in epidemics of the diseases vaccines have addressed. They might wake up and stop this nonsense before we're plunged back into that nightmare.
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