Thread by @DrJBhattacharya

Two weeks ago, I attended Dr. @dockaurG’s long-awaited appeal of a decision by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (@cpso_ca) to censor her for her advocacy against many of Canada’s draconian covid policies. A longish 🧵on medical Lysenkoism in Canada.
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Dr. Gill is a physician-leader with an excellent track record of patient care. She has never had a single patient complaint. She devotes her life to her patients. In 2020, she tweeted against the Canadian lockdowns. For this crime, @cpso_ca is threatening her license.
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Dr. Gill’s tweets in early 2020 focused on few themes, supported by scientific literature: (1) the harms of lockdown; (2) the importance of t-cell immunity; (3) the folly of ignoring age-stratification of covid mortality risk; etc. She was prescient & right about it all.
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In August 2020, a coordinated campaign to smear Dr. Gill resulted in the @cpso_ca opening seven separate complaints about identical tweets. Five were dismissed, including a tweet about HCQ for covid. The @cpso_ca accepted two complaints on a very shaky basis.
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Here’s the first tweet. Dr. @dockaurG was spot on here. The damage done by lockdowns to children, the poor, and the working class is incalculable. In any case, at the very least this is a legitimate opinion, not misinformation.
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https://twitter.com/dockaurG/status/1290755343937605632

In its decision against Dr. Gill, @cpso_ca cited the “success” of the lockdown in China as a reason to doubt the accuracy of Dr. Gill’s tweet. Even at the time, this was ridiculous. Subsequent events have proven @cpso_ca’s position even more laughable.
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Here’s the second tweet. Note the date – August 2020 before the vaccines were introduced. In context, Dr. Gill was arguing that we did not need a vaccine to lift lockdown, which was legitimate opinion (witness Sweden), not misinformation.
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https://twitter.com/dockaurG/status/1290697863777918977

The @cpso_ca’s position is that all Ontario doctors must align their public utterances with the Canadian government, even if medical ethics and scientific facts cut against the govt position. Ontario doctors are not protected apparently by the Canadian charter.
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Dr. Gill’s experience with the dystopian actions by @cpso_ca is a harbinger of what doctors in California can expect under the new #AB2098, which imposes a similar regime. Patients will wonder whether their doctor has their interest or the government's at heart.
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These @cpso_ca actions against Dr. @dockaurG have already done considerable damage to Canadian science & medicine. They are deeply unjust, and I hope the appeals board reverses them. Dr. Gill is a Canadian hero.
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