2020/12/19 10:40 Clinical psychiatrist Su Wei-shuo faces prison for ractopamine comments. Clinical psychiatrist Su Wei-shuo faces prison for ractopamine comments. (CNA photo) A recent decision by the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) to report clinical psychiatrist Su Wei-shuo (蘇偉碩) to the police over what the ministry said are false rumors about ractopamine has drawn pushback from the doctor and the main opposition party, which criticized the move as violating Su s freedom of speech. At a Thursday (Dec. 17) press conference, Wang Yu-min (王育敏), chairwoman of the opposition Kuomintang s (KMT s) Culture and Communications Committee, said the KMT supports Su, and she accused the government of violating the Constitution by suppressing freedom of speech.
Health ministry s probe of anti-ractopamine doctor draws pushback
12/18/2020 07:14 PM
Clinical psychiatrist Su Wei-shuo (left). CNA photo Dec. 17, 2020
Taipei, Dec. 18 (CNA) A recent decision by the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) to report clinical psychiatrist Su Wei-shuo (蘇偉碩) to the police over what the ministry said are false rumors about ractopamine has drawn pushback from the doctor and the main opposition party, which criticized the move as violating Su s freedom of speech.
At a Thursday press conference, Wang Yu-min (王育敏), chairwoman of the opposition Kuomintang s (KMT s) Culture and Communications Committee, said the KMT supports Su, and she accused the government of violating the Constitution by suppressing freedom of speech.
Premier calls for scientific facts in ractopamine debate
By Jason Pan / Staff reporter
Deliberations on ractopamine must be based on scientific evidence, not rumors, Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) said yesterday.
“Some people hide their spreading of rumors and disinformation behind free speech, but that is wrong,” Su told a session of the Legislative Yuan.
Su made the remarks following the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) expression of support for psychiatrist Su Wei-shuo (蘇偉碩).
In media interviews earlier this week, Su Wei-shuo said: “The toxic effect of ractopamine is 250 times that of an ecstasy [MDMA] pill.”
When a nation allows the importation of products with traces of ractopamine, its “entire ecosystem will become filled with ractopamine, even the air, so that people will inhale it just by breathing,” Su Wei-shuo told reporters.
KMT defends doctor over pork views
FREE SPEECH: Alicia Wang said that ractopamine in pork is a public issue that can be discussed after police summoned Su Wei-shuo over information he shared online
By Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporter, with CNA
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday defended Su Wei-shuo (蘇偉碩), a doctor whom the Ministry of Health and Welfare has accused of spreading false information about the effects of ractopamine on humans.
Su is a former physician at the Tainan branch of Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital and a member of an alliance of non-governmental organizations that oppose the use of such leanness-enhancing agents on pigs.