CNN's Anti-Vaxxer Quack Clams Up, Being investigated by Arizona Medical Board

[MohRokTah]

Good, maybe this doctor who deals death will lose his license:

Anti-vaccine doctor Jack Wolfson goes silent

(CNN)He calls measles 'benign.' If you vaccinate your child, he calls you a bad mother. And he says our children "have the right" to get infections.

When Dr. Jack Wolfson speaks, jaws drop. But his fans applaud.

He has given a medical face to the anti-vaccine movement -- eagerly stepping in front of TV cameras to beat up on vaccines and make light of the dangerous diseases they help prevent.

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Why the about-face?

It may have something to do with the investigation that the Arizona Medical Board has opened against him.

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CNN Link

[liberalhistorian]

1. If this is the dipshit who responded

to the letter to anti-vaxxers from a doctor whose child had leukemia and who was greatly endangered by even slight colds (and who could easily die from the measles and other such diseases) by saying his child was "pure", other people's children were not his responsibility and that the letter writer's daughter probably got leukemia from her vaccinations, then he should lose his license and be barred, and blackballed, from any kind of medical work (even cleaning bedpans in nursing homes) for life. I'm still shaking my head that a doctor would tell a parent his daughter probably got leukemia FROM vaccines. Truly frightening.

[kcr]

2. This is the same doctor

I hope he gets his license to practice yanked.

[liberalhistorian]

3. Oh, indeed, and I hope he's

never able to even wash a bedpan in a hospital or nursing home again once he's permanently stripped of said license. Let the crazy town organizations he spouts off for support him.

[calimary]

8. Hmmm... on the other hand, seems to me the scrub-the-bedpans beat might be the perfect

job for him. For the rest of his working life.

[Archae]

9. He won't.

Even doctors that are in prison, for horrendous crimes are keeping their licenses.

Medical licensing boards are a joke.
Doctors and nurses who are regularly drunk or stoned get 3-day suspensions, at worst.

I had to sue a hospital after a doctor in the ER told me I had a little bruise, a later x-ray showed my collarbone was broken.
The doctor finally was fired after killing a little boy.

[kcr]

12. I think you're right, sadly

I am glad that at least he's getting some heat.

[MohRokTah]

4. Yep, that's the guy.

Read the article, he's a complete quack selling quackery. He's a danger to the health of the public.

[weissmam]

10. he is a DO, and nothing against DO

[jeff47]

5. I wonder if he'll be able to out-martyr Wakefield. (nt)

[Blanks]

6. This is the doctor that is the antivax face in my Facebook world.

[ck4829]

7. Something really interesting about attenuated vaccines I found out recently

Apparently, when you receive a vaccine made from an attenuated virus (For those who don't know; infecting chicken eggs, tobacco plants, etc. with a virus and then taking the virus out and now it's not used to infecting human cells), there is a good chance you are vaccinating other people. Sometimes the attenuated virus gets to shed a little bit before it is destroyed by an immune system, and that makes you contagious, so if you shed it, you are giving other people your virus - your vaccine.

All these anti-vaxxers talk about being pure and not getting vaccines, because... They might have gotten them and don't even know it. And so I wonder if Wolfson and company even think about that.

[weissmam]

11. I bet if you check he just does it for money and his kids gots their vacs on schedule