"A statement of fact cannot be insolent." The miscellaneous ramblings of a surgeon/scientist on medicine, quackery, science, and pseudoscience (and anything else that interests him).

Tag: American Board of Internal Medicine

AAPS joins the legal thuggery against medical standards

Post author By Orac
Post date July 15, 2022
5 Comments on AAPS joins the legal thuggery against medical standards

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons: A medical John Birch Society.

The crank fake medical professional society Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) filed a lawsuit this week against medical specialty boards seeking to rein in COVID-19 misinformation. Coupled with previous suits, I can’t help but see this legal thuggery as increasingly coordinated with prior lawsuits by right wing groups.

Tags AAPS, American Board of Family Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine, American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Andrew Schlafly, antivaccine, Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, COVID vaccine, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, Department of Homeland Security, Disinformation Governance Board, Homeland Security Advisory Council, quackery, vaccines

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ABIM vs. medical disinformation: A day late and a dollar short or better late than never?

Post author By Orac
Post date June 1, 2022
26 Comments on ABIM vs. medical disinformation: A day late and a dollar short or better late than never?

Last month, the New England Journal of Medicine published an editorial by the President of ABIM discussing how the board certification can be taken away from diplomates who spread medical misinformation. Is this too little, too late?

Tags ABIM, American Board of Internal Medicine, antivaccine, antivaccine movement, board certification, conspiracy theories, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, COVID-19 vaccine, disinformation, Federation of State Medical Boards, hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, misinformation, No License for Disinformation, Rashid Buttar, Stanislaw Burzynski, vaccines

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