Commentary
The West prides itself on having won the Cold War, but in fact a case could be made out that, in a certain respect, the Soviet Union won it. That respect is the Sovietization of mentalities, which is proceeding apace in many institutions, not the least of them the American Medical Association.
That august body recently issued a statement about how it thinks that medical dezinformatsiya—oops, I meant disinformation—should be tackled. Perhaps the most sinister paragraph in this statement, which suggests what should be done, is the following:
“Ensure licensing boards have the authority to take disciplinary action against health professionals for spreading health-related disinformation and affirms that all speech in which a health professional is utilizing their credentials is professional conduct and can be scrutinized by their licensing entity.”…