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Steve Martin's avatar

Jimmy Dore on a relevant rant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FiEnmRCphQ

From about 32:40 ... Dr. (former) Meryl Nass echoes and answers your rant ...

Jimmy ... "Aren't are you surprised at how few doctors have their license taken away meaning are you surprised at how compliant doctors are and how little they'll push back against the establishment"?

Meryl ... Yes. I was shocked and dismayed at how little the people who are supposed to guard our health were willing to do it. But when you look at what happened to me (stripped of medical license for speaking out), I mean I was just a poster child that the the system needed to take a doctor, at least one, and make them national news you know the day after my license was suspended ... for nothing essentially. I never had a patient complaint ... The system needs poster children to scare all the other doctors.

There are a lot of doctors whose licenses were threatened, but there were only a few from who they actually took them away (like mine) because a medical license is worth a lot of money and it's also worth a lot of prestige.

The way you look at yourself as a doctor, if you lose your license and you've been a doctor, and all of a sudden you've got to dig dishes or or work in the supermarket, a lot of people commit suicide when that happens

They threaten people and that basically was enough to keep a lot of people quiet."

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Being Nobody, Going Nowhere's avatar

This is a brilliant article Aussie17.

The only suggestion I have is that you erase the Sub-Headline as it stops people from reading it. Don't self-depriciate your work by calling it a rant.

This is not a rant. This is a well-researched and documented important contribution with evidence. I know what rants are. I do them all the time. This is not a rant.

And you are spot on with your analysis that it is these bad players that function as gatekeepers (some conscioussly, others as "useful idiots" that actully believe in their righteousness) for a toxic self-censoring climate. Keep going. Get your work out there.

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