YouTube starts mass takedowns of videos promoting “harmful or ineffective” cancer cures
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It’s attempting to streamline its health moderation policies.

YouTube starts mass takedowns of videos promoting ‘harmful or ineffective’ cancer cures | The platform will also take action against videos that discourage people from seeking professional medical …::YouTube will remove content about harmful or ineffective cancer treatments or which “discourages viewers from seeking professional medical treatment.”

  • Reva@startrek.websiteEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    There are structural issues in academia and society that make it much more likely that these institutions and control mechanisms are used to uphold the status quo rather than help.

    As I said, in the age of race science, a scientific editor would not accept any non-racist paper for being “inflammatory”, “extremist” or “an outlier”. Peer review does no good if your peers have biases. Replications only work if someone cares enough about you to replicate your experiment, let alone in fields without experiments at all.

    • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      1 year ago

      science from 200 years ago is not the same thing as we have now ffs

      now, and at basically any point from past hundred years or so, when scientific method was reasonably widely adopted, this method is a tool to avoid repeating mistakes like this

      and at any rate it doesn’t mean that random snake oil peddler, in this case “traditional medicine” flavoured, is more trustworthy than state of the art evidence based medicine, just because science made mistakes in the (distant) past