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Right now, there's legislation in California that speaks to all these matters with a clarity that puzzles me.

So I welcome Professor Richard Epstein of the Hoover Institution.

He's a senior fellow writing and defining ideas about the intention of California.

This is a long California legislation, California AB-298, about COVID and what you can and can't say to the public.

It reads a section reads dissemination of misinformation or disinformation related to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is designated unprofessional conduct.

It reads also it shall constitute unprofessional conduct for a physician and surgeon to disseminate misinformation or disinformation.

The definition of those words is important.

In the legislation disinformation is defined as it means misinformation that the licensee deliberately disseminated with malicious intent or intent to mislead.

The word misinformation is interpreted to mean false information that is contradicted by contemporary scientific consensus contrary to the standard of care.

That's the language of the law.

I learned from the professor that two courts, two courts already have commented on this, one saying it's constitutional language, the other saying it's unconstitutional language.

Professor, what I've, what I learned from your essay is that the disputes of these last years are not going away.

They're not lifting.

If anything, they're becoming more difficult to follow.

This is California on its own as a world of itself, but other states are likely to be influenced so as the US Congress.

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