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Big Tech Silencing Physicians: A Dangerous Road for American Medicine (2020)

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27 points by smileypete 4 years ago · 10 comments

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mostertoaster 4 years ago

Regardless if their “science” is crap. There is no reason to flag this article.

The claims it is talking about are whether they have a right to speak or not.

China censors their country via private companies, how is it different in the US?

Elsewhere here someone says “Why is a link to AAPS, widely known for spreading [their opinions contrary to The Party], on this site?”

I forgot you must always be in accord with The Party. You can’t be with them on 7 of their 10 points because then you will be silenced. You must be all for all 10 points they make, and be actively working against those opposed to them. You must not even listen to points contrary to the one The Party makes.

When the whole world is crazy, sanity looks insane.

etchalon 4 years ago

Why is a link to AAPS, widely known for spreading medical misinformation, on this site?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_American_Physic...

  • cotelletta 4 years ago

    Just because Wikipedia says it, doesn't mean it's widely known or accurate. Labeling things as denialism is itself a common trick in misinformation. It flattens whatever the original argument was.

    There is a common conflation today where criticism of X policy is confused with being anti-X.

    The medical censorship is getting so bad that organizations like this now seem pretty useful and on point. I don't need to agree with all their claims to have common ground with them.

    Certainly more than the people who see covid as an endless license to control what others are allowed to read or hear.

    • etchalon 4 years ago

      This organization is not useful.

      • cotelletta 4 years ago

        In a pandemic, we make weird friends. I much prefer some pro conservative anti abortion org asking for less censorship than a dozen woke newspapers and rumor mills calling me a fascist or antivaxxer because I don't treat science as an unquestionable holy cow. Or while propping up corrupt politicians because they're on the same team.

        I don't need to agree with someone 100% in order to agree that doing X will make the world more like what i want it to be like.

        In this case, if this org is wrong, the answer is counterspeech based on facts, not shooing people away from afar without a chance to listen. Because that is the tic of the authoritarian who is intellectually bankrupt.

        • etchalon 4 years ago

          There are intellectually honest organizations and groups that are asking questions and challenging censorship without being the garbage pile of ideologically-driven pseudoscience that AAPS advocates.

          Make better friends.

  • newacct583 4 years ago

    This is what the flag button is for.

  • smileypeteOP 4 years ago

    Please, if there is any misinformation in the article, tell us where it is.

    IMO a number of high profile politicians and corporate media are also guilty of misinformation.

    Eg 'pandemic of the unvaccinated'. This seems to equate no immunity with naturally acquired immunity, and must surely be misinformation, but much of the media is blind to it.

    • etchalon 4 years ago

      The article contains no misinformation because it contains no information.

      It's a useless article posted by an organization that would obviously be for the widespread freedom of quacks to post junk without oversight.

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