This petition was submitted during the 2017-2019 parliament
Rejected petition Make dangerous suggestion in regards to health care punishable
Anti-Science movements are becoming dangerously popular in Western culture. The increasing denial of evidence-backed medicine is becoming an endangerment to both people and livestock via the spread of misinformation and conspiracies on social media, and ultimately puts lives at risk.
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The rising spread of misinformation and conspiracies in regard to evidence-backed medicine is becoming a major health crisis.
Diseases once thought eradicated through the widespread success of vaccination programs have seen reemergence in many countries. This resurfacing of a potentially fatal disease such as measles is a good example of this.
Such a dangerous spread of misinformation should be punishable through dangerous suggestion or at least a CPS referral as lives are being put at risk.
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