This operating mode could be observed during the Covid-19 pandemic, but also more recently with the hantavirus episode.
The text provides for sanctions in the event of abusive complaints against a scientist or health professional. It also establishes the protection by their function of any scientist of a public agency when they are questioned, as well as the creation of a support fund for those who are not part of the public service.
The text carried by MP Yannick Neuder aims to fight against disinformation in health matters, which he describes as a phenomenon that has become massive to the point of threatening the very existence of health systems.
For Yannick Neuder, health misinformation is not a residual or spontaneous phenomenon. It is produced by identified, structured actors, whose operating mode is constant.
MP Yannick Neuder provides in the text a new infovigilance system powered by scientific experts in order to fight against these actions.
The MP deplores the existence of harassment or SLAPP procedures against scientists, who are sometimes targeted by conspiracy complaints and must then justify themselves before the courts or the medical order.
The text provides, among other things, for sanctions in the event of"abusive"complaints against a scientist or a health professional, the protection by his function of any scientist of a public agency when he is implicated, and the creation of a support fund for those who are not part of the public service.