[djsumdog]

There was a time when saying black people where just as intelligent as white people was considered misinformation and a dangerous way to think.

There was a time when many leaders considered homosexuality dangerous and magazines promoting homosexuality was misinformation.

It's easy to say something is misinformation now, but the standard of truth does not come now, it comes 20 years from now when history judges this moment.

[washadjeffmad]

You've failed to justify your equivalence. How many neo-Nazis, homophobes, self-styled "truthers", and xenophobic racists came to their conclusions naturally, without any external guidance or rhetoric?

We don't exist in a vacuum, and people are socialized into their beliefs. Either these doctors weren't given the faculties to distinguish fact from fiction in their education, they lack the mental and social capacities to protect themselves from falling for twisted logic and half-truths, or they're intentionally manipulating those vulnerable members of society for their own gain.