Dr. Mike says he encourages health professionals to constantly change their opinions as new research is rolled out, but the problem he's seeing in the current administration is misleading information "perpetually" being shared with no solid backing.
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00:00I think whenever you have someone in a position of authority, especially one of a health agency,
00:07making reckless statements repeatedly, I think that is concerning for us in the medical community.
00:13Whenever you're trying to communicate health information, you have to strive to be accurate.
00:18You have to correct yourself if you make a misstep. In fact, some people call learning
00:23new evidence and then changing your opinion flip-flopping. No, that is what's supposed
00:28to happen in science. As new information evolves, as we learn more data, we should be updating our
00:34knowledge and changing our opinions on certain things. But what I've seen lately from the HHS,
00:40some of the heads of the other major agencies, is perpetually putting out information that is
00:46misleading people to be scared of certain medical interventions. And I don't judge parents for having
00:54questions and having concerns. I think that's only natural. In fact, I think that those parents are
00:59doing their best for their children, and I applaud them. But what we need to do is ask for data. And
01:05if we get the data, we need to trust that data. And the data shows with tremendous amount of support
01:12that when we vaccinate, these vaccine preventable illnesses disappear, as we've seen with smallpox,
01:18as we've seen 20 years ago with measles here in the United States, as we've seen with cervical cancer
01:24rates dropping because of HPV vaccinations, we need to trust these vaccines that they're doing
01:30what we see happening. And in addition to it, when we stop vaccinating, we see outbreaks just like
01:36we're seeing right now with measles in Texas.