{"id":35057,"date":"2011-05-08T15:43:27","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T15:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/antivaxxer-mark-geier-has-license-revoked-in-maryland-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2011-05-08T15:43:27","modified_gmt":"2011-05-08T15:43:27","slug":"antivaxxer-mark-geier-has-license-revoked-in-maryland-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/antivaxxer-mark-geier-has-license-revoked-in-maryland-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Antivaxxer Mark Geier has license revoked in Maryland | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I do so love to report these wins for reality, as rare as they are: the very vocal antivax advocate Mark Geier <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/GeierOrder.pdf\">has had his medical license revoked in Maryland<\/a>. Why? <\/p><p>The Maryland State Board of Physicians reviewed nine cases of autistic children seen by Geier, of which he treated seven. Of those nine, the Board found <strong>he misdiagnosed six of them<\/strong>. He (mis)diagnosed them with \"precocious puberty\", a medical condition where kids have extremely early onset of puberty. Why would he do such a thing? Well, this condition can be treated with Lupron, a drug which lowers testosterone (it&rsquo;s used to chemically castrate adult men). Geier happens to think Lupron can also help autism &mdash; <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rationalwiki.org\/wiki\/Lupron_therapy\">despite there being no evidence at all that&rsquo;s the case<\/a> &mdash; which makes his diagnosis very suspect. It implies strongly that he used the precocious puberty diagnosis as an excuse to prescribe the drug.<\/p><p>By the way, Lupron costs <em>$5000 &ndash; $6000 a month<\/em> to administer. The side effects can be severe as well, including seizures, and it&rsquo;s known that autistic children are prone to seizures. That&rsquo;s why the Board wrote that Geier&rsquo;s treatment \"exposed the children to needless risk ...<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/uJLS4n6JgW6HIpvBqa49h9Wg-QI\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/98806_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/uJLS4n6JgW6HIpvBqa49h9Wg-QI\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/98806_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/98806_psX8sXIrefw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/98806_9kf2UmE99gE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do so love to report these wins for reality, as rare as they are: the very vocal antivax advocate Mark Geier has had his medical license revoked in Maryland. Why? The Maryland State Board of Physicians reviewed nine cases &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/antivaxxer-mark-geier-has-license-revoked-in-maryland-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}