Dr. Joseph Ladapo of America’s Frontline Doctors (COVID denial, demon sperm, etc.) is now Florida’s Surgeon General.
Quote:Dr. Ladapo will thus be in charge of public health for Florida’s 21-million-plus citizens, running an agency of some 17,000 employees tasked with, among other jobs, the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. He has also been hired by the University of Florida’s med school, which DeSantis claims is totally coincidental.
In my view, the only reason he got the job is because DeSantis needed window dressing for his anti-science views on managing the state’s COVID response. In this regard, Dr. Ladapo is eminently qualified. Dr. Ladapo is both a member of the fringe medical group “America’s Frontline Doctors” and a signatory to the Great Barrington Declaration, which we’ll return to in a moment.
Dr. Ladapo proved his loyalty to DeSantis on his very first full day in office by issuing an “emergency” rule giving parents sole discretion over whether their children wear masks at school. The rule also says that if a student has been exposed to COVID-19, parents can choose to keep their children in school “without restrictions or disparate treatment, so long as the student remains asymptomatic”.
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/dr-jose...n-florida/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"