Posted 13 February 2015
South Africa is not immune to health professionals who “substantiate” or support scam products in spite of no evidence that the product is no more than just that, a scam.
This article, Revoke the license of any doctor who opposes vaccination, published in the Washington Post, written by Arthur L. Caplan, the director of the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center’s Department of Population Health, makes a strong argument that “Doctors who purvey views based on anecdote, myth, hearsay, rumor, ideology, fraud or some combination of all of these, particularly during an epidemic, should have their medical licenses revoked“.
Although his opinion is directed primarily at health professionals and related to vaccination, we suggest that the same should apply to any health professional whose ‘professional opinion’ is used to substantiate a product that in fact is not supported by good … Read the rest