RFK Group To SCOTUS: Let Doctors Lie About Vaccines

Courthouse News reports:

Doctors skeptical of the efficacy of vaccines — represented by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — asked the Supreme Court for emergency intervention Monday to prevent medical boards from punishing health care workers for spreading vaccine disinformation that threatens to erode public trust in the medical profession.

“The court should speak clearly and decisively to state actors, professional organizations, other non-state actors, and the national media: Public speech does not lose its constitutional protection from government action simply because it is uttered by a health care professional, even if it is at odds with medical orthodoxy,” the doctors wrote.

A nonprofit and several doctors facing disciplinary actions claim medical organizations are trying to control physicians’ speech, evoking historical examples from Communist China, the Soviet Union and the Third Reich.

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The doctors claim “scientific gobbledygook” from medical associations has sidelined critical viewpoints. ⁦@CourthouseNews⁩ https://t.co/Hz1mi2QKaj

— Kelsey Reichmann (@KelseyReichmann) November 4, 2024