KevinMD April 16, 2024
Measles is on the rise in more than a dozen states, an alarming surge for a vaccine-preventable disease eliminated in the United States nearly 25 years ago. Meanwhile, young women exposed to relentless unscientific deception by social media algorithms are abandoning hormonal contraception in favor of significantly less effective methods that result in more unwanted pregnancies. In Louisiana, women with nonviable pregnancies have undergone unnecessary C-sections to preserve the appearance of not having an abortion. And in Alabama, IVF patients struggling to start or grow their families became predictable victims of political and judicial attacks on abortion access in the wake of the Dobbs decision.
Medical misinformation, the politicization of science, and a years-long effort to undermine trust in physicians...