Department of Criminal Law, Faculty of Law and Administration, Jagiellonian University, Olszewskiego 2 Street, 31-007, Kraków, Poland.
Med Health Care Philos. 2021 Jun;24(2):235-245. doi: 10.1007/s11019-020-09996-7. Epub 2021 Jan 4.
Uncontrolled access to information on the Internet has many advantages, but it also leads to the phenomenon of fake news. Fake news is dangerous in many spheres, including that of health. For example, we are facing an increase in the amount of vaccine hesitancy. This has been w considered by the World Health Organization in 2019 as one of the greatest threats to public health. This specific phenomenon is linked with the spread of information on the Internet around that issue. In this paper, I discuss a proposition of new crime, which has the aim of fighting medical fake news by stopping its spread. This proposition should be considered only if other non-criminal measures are inefficient. The proposal is "Whoever publicly disseminates information evidently discrepant with medical knowledge is subject to a penalty."
互联网信息的不受控制的获取有许多优点，但也导致了假新闻的现象。假新闻在许多领域都很危险，包括健康领域。例如，我们正面临着疫苗犹豫情绪的增加。这一点在 2019 年已被世界卫生组织视为对公众健康的最大威胁之一。这一特定现象与互联网上有关该问题的信息传播有关。在本文中，我讨论了一项新的犯罪提议，该提议旨在通过阻止医疗假新闻的传播来打击该类新闻。只有在其他非刑事措施无效的情况下，才应考虑该提议。该提议是“任何人公开传播明显与医学知识不符的信息，应受到处罚”。
