The initial part of what follows is taken from a blog of mine from 12/21/22:
“‘ … this vaccine is not completely safe, and has unprecedented harms.’
This was said by British cardiologist, Dr. Aseem Malhotra, who initially encouraged the widespread use of COVID-19 vaccines until his father passed away suddenly of cardiac arrest after receiving the jab.
His father’s death prompted Malhotra to begin researching the safety profile of the vaccines. Based on his findings, he no longer believes the theoretical benefits of COVID-19 vaccination outweigh the very real risks.
Dr. Malhotra is not alone.
In June 2022, the FDA’s Tom Shimabukuro, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., identified as part of the CDC COVID-19 Vaccine Coordination Unit, reported that: “Current evidence supports a causal association between mRNA COVID-19 vaccination and myocarditis and pericarditis.”
Six months later, as of Dec. 2, 2022, there have been a total of 35,718 cases of myocarditis/pericarditis reported to the government’s Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System.
This skepticism is not confined to Britain and the U.S.
After witnessing as many as 70 cases of vaccine-related heart conditions, Australian Cardiologist Dr. Ross Walker is now saying publicly that he believes there should be a ban on the use of mRNA booster vaccines.”
Fortunately for them, none of the above mentioned individuals practice medicine in California, because the California Medical Board considers the expression of the doctors’ dissenting views on the disease as potentially dangerous misinformation that should be suppressed. The board argues it has legal authority to discipline the doctors for speech it deems to be medical misconduct.
Three doctors are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to prevent a California agency from investigating them over their opposition to state-approved COVID-19 policies.
The physicians counter that just because they have medical licenses doesn’t mean they forfeit their free speech rights under the First Amendment.
This rigamarole has been now going on for years with appeals, appeals to appeals, etc. While I do not consider myself to be an expert on the Constitution, I do not recall any provision in that document that says or even implies that the right to free speech is suspended in case of a pandemic.
IMO, in this case the California Medical Board has again overstepped its authority.
Hopefully the Supreme Court will agree.
1/16/25