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Youtube/Google is evil, time to fight back
nctnico:
--- Quote from: Zero999 on May 04, 2022, 05:20:03 pm ---That can't happen on social media given the current levels of censorship. As I said before, even the British Medical Journal was censored by Facebook. Freedom of speech is essential for science to evolve. Without it, we go back to the Middle Ages, when only theories accepted by the authorities prevail. You must've heard of Galileo.
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Any scientist expecting a meaningfull exchange on Facebook is an idiot. There are lots of much better ways like publishing papers in a scientific journal or presenting a new theory at a conference. Radical ideas require extraordinary proof and undergo a lot of scrutiny. Albert Einstein's relativity theories wheren't accepted from day one.
--- Quote ---Given that all countries I'm aware of recommend/mandate cloth, rather than surgical masks, most of the worlds' governments are equally incompetent then.
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Then you are aware of very few countries. In Germany FFP2 was mandated and in the Netherlands surgical masks where strongly recommended while cloth masks where discouraged.
Zero999:
--- Quote from: nctnico on May 04, 2022, 05:43:28 pm ---Then you are aware of very few countries. In Germany FFP2 was mandated and in the Netherlands surgical masks where strongly recommended while cloth masks where discouraged.
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They are outliers. The UK, US and Canada still push cloth masks. Germany and I believe Denmark are exceptional in the way their governments update their policies with the latest scientific theories. Another good example of this is recommending aspiration, when doctors and nurses inject the vaccine, in order to reduce the risk of it entering the bloodstream, where it might increase the risks of triggering adverse events.
--- Quote from: nctnico on May 04, 2022, 05:43:28 pm ---
--- Quote from: Zero999 on May 04, 2022, 05:20:03 pm ---That can't happen on social media given the current levels of censorship. As I said before, even the British Medical Journal was censored by Facebook. Freedom of speech is essential for science to evolve. Without it, we go back to the Middle Ages, when only theories accepted by the authorities prevail. You must've heard of Galileo.
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Any scientist expecting a meaningfull exchange on Facebook is an idiot. There are lots of other ways like publishing papers in a scientific journal or presenting a new theory at a conference. Radical ideas require extraordinary proof and undergo a lot of scrutiny. Albert Einstein's relativity theories wheren't accepted from day one.
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Plenty of doctors and scientists use Facebook to communicate with each other and ordinary people alike. This is vitally important to keep people interested and updated with the latest scientific thinking. Unfortunately this isn't possible, as the idiots who work there think they know better than the likes of the BMJ. :palm:
nctnico:
Only an idiot would go on Facebook for medical advice. Facebook is not your doctor! So it is good if Facebook doesn't allow to dispense medical advice. Most governments have websites for medical advice which content is supervised / written by doctors; those are the places to go looking for medical advice.
Zero999:
--- Quote from: nctnico on May 04, 2022, 05:48:47 pm ---Only an idiot would go on Facebook for medical advice. Facebook is not your doctor!
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I would say the same to anyone who gets their medical advice from TV news, or some government run website.
--- Quote --- So it is good if Facebook doesn't allow to dispense medical advice.
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You're missing the point: Facebook only allow medical content which suits their agenda. I agree, if they want to do their bit to prevent the sharing of medical misinformation, the best thing they could do is just prohibit anyone from posting any medical content, but that's not the case.
--- Quote --- Most governments have websites for medical advice which content is supervised / written by doctors; those are the places to go looking for medical advice.
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Unfortunately they're often full of misinformation. It took the UK's NHS website a couple of years to update their website with the latest list of COVID-19 symptoms.
SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: nctnico on May 04, 2022, 05:48:47 pm ---Only an idiot would go on Facebook for medical advice. Facebook is not your doctor! So it is good if Facebook doesn't allow to dispense medical advice. Most governments have websites for medical advice which content is supervised / written by doctors; those are the places to go looking for medical advice.
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No, the right place to go for medical advice is, guess what? A doctor. Shocking huh?
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