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Nurses In Australia Face Punishment For Promoting Anti-Vaccination Messages Via Social Media (medicalxpress.com)
HughPickens.com writes: Medical Express reports that nurses and midwives promoting anti-vaccination messages in Australia could face punishment including being slapped with a caution and having their ability to practice medicine restricted. Serious cases could be referred to an industry tribunal, where practitioners could face harsher penalties such as having their registration suspended or cancelled. The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia released the vaccination standards in response to what it described as a small number of nurses and midwives promoting anti-vaccination via social media. The statement also urges members of the public to report nurses or midwives promoting anti-vaccination. Promoting false, misleading or deceptive information is an offense under national law and is prosecutable by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency. "The board will consider whether the nurse or midwife has breached their professional obligations and will treat these matters seriously," the statement said. However Dr. Hannah Dahlen, a professor of midwifery at the University of Western Sydney and the spokeswoman for the Australian College of Midwives, worries the crackdown may push people with anti-vaccination views further underground. "The worry is the confirmation bias that can occur, because people might say: 'There you go, this is proof that you can't even have an alternative opinion.' It might in fact just give people more fuel for their belief systems."
I haven't done any research on the topic, but I know there are two sides to every story. There very well might be a very small chance of a horrible side effect, even if the medical community considers anti-vaxxers to be idiots.
The one thing I do know is that today's social justice climate excoriates people for having a view differing from the status quo. Hell, Twitter's VR chief got fired for making a wrongthink social media post several years ago. It seems like if you aren't loudly broadcasting that you agree 100% with the social justice status quo on every topic, you are treated like radioactive waste in every part of society.
The results would speak for themselves. No need to punish people for denying the theory of gravity or Maxwell's equations.
Plenty of reasons to punish people who do not respect Dear Leader, do not believe in communism strongly enough, or oppose bogus pseudoscience like mandatory vaccinations or global warming.
Tell me, if you truly believe vaccines are working, why do you care about my kids getting them? Shouldn't your children be immune if you "vaccinate" them? What is or isn't injected into my kids bodies is my concern, not yours. There are few things as creepy as vaccinators.
Measles and whooping cough are infectious diseases that can be dealt with quite well by the current medical system.
Besides, the problem of most people with the MMR vaccin is not that they don't want their children vaccinated, but that they would like to postpone it and separate the vaccines from each other in order to prevent autism in their children, which is proven to be related to early vaccination with this combination cocktail.
Further the belief in those vaccines has never been confirmed by the 'scientific golden standard' radomised double blind trial, and neither the safety.
So I think parents, nurses, midwives have a point if they have hesitations regarding the current vaccine schedules and their is no reason for insane reactions as criminalising their opinions.
"Trump!!", the new Godwin.
The great thing about authoritarian rule is it is efficient and forces compliance.
The bad thing is when it enforces a wrong policy and causes more harm.
And the trouble is, in life we can never really know whether an idea is correct. So there is always a risk.
Which is why flexibility is needed to some extent, and you always have to step back and say, ok, how can we be so sure?
Right now for example, Australia has been banning a surgeon who has been saying that maybe it isn't such a good idea that diabetics eat sugar.
So whilst vaccinations may seem a perfectly good example of a place where the authorities must take control and implement a view for public safety, it doesn't mean that's always the right call, by default.
It is always and often a risky call. Group-think bias is common amongst anyone who is a human being, expert or not.
Whilst taking action, we need ways to keep checking and keep open the possibility that the experts might be wrong. And we need to take action. And they could be wrong. Anything other than that is just more group-think.
It really isn't enough to say "it is science". You always need to ask, what specifically did they do to figure that thing out? In plain language. How realiable was that method of figuring it out?
Then be as authoritarian as you like in enforcing it.
What evidence.
There has never been any randomised double blind trial to prove the efficacy, and more importantly, the safety, of those vaccines.
Nor is there any research into the insane increases in frequency and amount of vaccinations that the American Pharmaceutical Concerns are pushing through the throats of the American people, with a guaranteed profit of billions of dollars for every vaccin that they manage to get included in the schedule.
Does that profit incentiv not make you stand still and think for a while?
"Trump!!", the new Godwin.
Surprisingly enough it isn't tested. There is no 'golden standard' scientific test carried out (randomised double blind controlled trial) that proves either the efficacy or the safety of the 'measles vaccines', let alone the triple cocktail of MMR, which many facts suggest is responsible for many cases of autism if administered at a too young age.
When the brilliant and promising Dr. Andrew Wakefield pointed out that he is not against measles vaccination and merely suggested to separate the measles vaccine from the MMR vaccine and postpone the schedule of it by 6 months, he was literally crucified by 'his' medical establishment.
Mind you, he clearly stated that he is not against vaccination and only wanted a schedule which science suggested would be more safe, and that was enough for the 'big pharma' to have him destroyed, and for the British government to refuse separate vaccines to be administered, heck, even to enter the country.
These for me are big red flags!
"Trump!!", the new Godwin.
Im sad you didnt die. No truly. anyone who thinks people should be jailed for their opinions or beliefs deserves to fucking die!