“Thank goodness I don’t live in X,” we may say as we follow the news.
Billions live in Russia, Ukraine, China, Xinjiang, Tibet, Hong Kong, Cuba, New York, Chicago, Seattle, California, Canada, and other statist hellholes. The rest of us live elsewhere. Perhaps we congratulate ourselves on our wise choices of birth location and/or subsequent residencies.
But people are copycats.
As producers, we are often inspired by great achievements and seek to emulate them. The destroyers among us, somewhat similarly, are eager to adopt the latest in fashionable assault on what the producers are doing.
So we don’t necessarily escape if, say, California prohibits physicians from discussing things medical whenever their judgment conflicts with state-approved doctrine. Because next thing you know, lawmakers in Tennessee or Virginia will be saying, “Gee, that’s right, gag the doctors. Why didn’t I think of that?”
Legislative masterminds in California now want to harass doctors who recommend a non-government-approved treatment for COVID-19. If AB 2098 is passed, it would authorize California medical boards to discipline doctors for “dissemination of misinformation” related to COVID-19.
The bill implies that no doctor can legitimately disagree with another about a particular case. (Yeah? See the history of medicine.)
When I say that this legislation assaults truth and truth-seeking — which requires freedom of speech as a necessary corollary of freedom of thought in medicine or in any field — I speak for Californian doctors and California patients.
I speak also for us all.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
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We may marvel at how the Science™ that we are suppose to follow is ultimately determined not by scientific method but by political process steered by vote-seeking politicians and the bureaucrats whom they appoint, with journalists weighing-in on whom the voters should support on these matters.
Wow! Someone who is completely unaware of your own party’s actions all over America!
And which party, Mr Kovalcin, would you have us believe is Paul’s party?
Ab2098 if passed and strictly applied and will at least retard, if not end, progress in medicine.
Another near perfect example of the effect of government intervention into areas it should never tread.
This is not the aberration, it is the general rule.
This fellow was right over two hundred years ago.
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Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of Men and deny equal privileges to others; the Constitution of this republic should make special privilege for medical freedom as well as religious freedom.
– Benjamin Rush