‘Free speech prevailed. We do not have to parrot pharma-government nonsense to keep our licenses,’ said lead plaintiff Dr. Pierre Kory.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n (LifeSiteNews<\/a>) \u2014 A California judge has forbidden medical boards from investigating, prosecuting, accusing, or sanctioning doctors \u201cbased on the viewpoint of the information, recommendations, or advice they give a patient about COVID-19, including their departure from the position of the public health authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n While the ruling technically applies only to three doctors who were plaintiffs in the case, Kory v. Bonta<\/em>,<\/a> according to their attorney, Richard Jaffe, the judge\u2019s order \u201cputs the boards on notice that a federal judge has found their Covid misinformation policy unconstitutional under the First Amendment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEvery investigator and every board member now knows how this judge sees it,\u201d said<\/a> Jaffe. \u201cAny board employee who opens or continues a Covid misinformation investigation from here on is doing it with a federal injunction and a federal ruling on the record, and with no ability to say later that nobody told them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n United States District Judge William B. Shubb \u201cordered not only California\u2019s Attorney General but also the Medical Board of California and the Osteopathic Medical Board, as well as ANYONE acting on their behalf, to stop investigating us, stop prosecuting us, stop harassing us,\u201d wrote<\/a> lead plaintiff Dr. Pierre Kory in a celebratory Substack post. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMost importantly, stop threatening our licenses over any professional opinions we might share with our own patients about Covid-19, the \u2018vaccines,\u2019 ivermectin, anything,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The judge\u2019s order makes an important distinction: medical boards are not prevented from investigating, prosecuting, or disciplining doctors for actual<\/em> fraud or negligent treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2022, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom<\/a> signed Orwellian Assembly Bill 2098<\/a> into law. The measure considered medical doctors and surgeons to be guilty of \u201cunprofessional conduct\u201d if they \u201cdisseminate misinformation or disinformation related to COVID-19, including false or misleading information regarding the nature and risks of the virus, its prevention and treatment; and the development, safety, and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n The legislation also subjected physicians found to have violated the law to disciplinary action from the Medical Board of California and the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, including potential suspension of medical licenses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAmerican physicians in that state, where I was licensed at the time, would have been literally forced to spew state propaganda in our patients\u2019 ears or we would have lost our licenses. Not for fraud. Not for malpractice. No, it would have been for having a different medical opinion from that of our \u2018beloved,\u2019 government health agencies led by Saint Fauci,\u201d wrote Kory, who further noted in a \u201cbeautiful twist of fate\u201d that Fauci was recommended by the U.S. Senate for a contempt of Congress charge<\/a> within hours of Judge Shubb\u2019s ruling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n subscribe to our daily headlines<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe penalty would have been our licenses, which is to say our careers, our livelihoods, and our ability to care for the people who came to us precisely because we would tell them the truth as we saw it,\u201d Kory explained. \u201cThe state took the most personal conversation in medicine, the one between a doctor and a frightened patient, and tried to put its own words in our mouths, with our licenses held as collateral to make sure we complied.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mincing no words, Kory noted that the new ruling means that the medical boards and government can \u201cno longer \u2026 punish us for telling our own patients the truth as we saw it: that in our medical judgment the state was coercing and mandating its citizens into receiving toxic, lethal, ineffective, illogical, and experimental gene therapies, and that we would not pretend otherwise.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe continue to have the freedom, even in Clownifornia, to both hold and freely express opinions that contradict those of the priesthood within public health and academia,\u201d he continued. The judge\u2019s order \u201cprotects us right now, today, from the machine that spent years trying to grind down doctors who would not read from the state\u2019s script.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe sad reality of it all is that we had to learn that a government that can tell your doctor what he is allowed to say can basically tell your doctor to lie to you,\u201d concluded Kory. \u201cFree speech prevailed. We do not have to parrot pharma-government nonsense to keep our licenses.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\nA doctor\u2019s duty is to the patient, not the state<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n