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Carolyn Phipps's avatar

Disinformationists? Who, what? I must have missed that.

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Kate Fall's avatar

You didn't. Dr. Oz is still out there selling snake oil with Harvard's approval. He's not alone. I think medical boards would be better for dealing with this than universities, but how these medical schools aren't embarrassed is anyone's guess. https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/19/us/doctors-covid-vaccine-misinformation-invs/index.html

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Dan W's avatar

HarvardтАЩs approval? The dude got a bachelorтАЩs in biology from Harvard in 1982. ThatтАЩs supposed to constitute тАЬapprovalтАЭ?

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Kate Fall's avatar

When it comes to COVID disinformation? I don't think it's a bridge too far during a pandemic for an institution to say, "He may have learned medicine here, but we didn't teach THAT. It's wrong." But again, I think medical boards would have more power and influence here.

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Dan W's avatar

He didnтАЩt learn medicine there, though. He only for his undergraduate degree. Are colleges supposed to police every 22 year old theyтАЩve ever graduated?

I do agree that medical boards are the better option here, but if you want it to be schools it should at least be the school that gave him an MD.

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