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Government,
Civil Rights

Mar. 15, 2023

Punishing doctors for going against scientific consensus is unconstitutional

AB 2098 targets pure speech by explicitly applying to advice. If it were meant only to regulate conduct, there would have been no reason to append “or advice” to the bar.

Jenin Younes

Litigation counsel
New Civil Liberties Alliance

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Efforts to silence doctors and scientists who dissent from state orthodoxy on Covid-19 related matters have taken many forms throughout the pandemic. California's AB 2098, a new law that punishes doctors for "disseminating" "misinformation" about Covi...

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