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Re:Americans are getting more nervous about what they say in... by martythemaniak on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @09:27AM (#23986380)
So you think that fighting medical quackery and disinformation is politics heading in the wrong direction?

Isn't "politics heading in the wrong direction" the fact that some obscure drug was picked up randomly by a know nothing politician, baselessly sold as a miracle cure and had elaborate conspiracies formed around it, all so that said politician could pummel his political opponents and win reelection?

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Re:Americans are getting more nervous about what they say in... by ColanR on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @09:45AM (#23986566)
> fighting medical quackery and disinformation

I would rather we fight the people who are preventing medical discussions from taking place. If you want to call the use of hydroxychloroquine "quackery" and "disinformation", then you should be able to definitively prove that it's completely ineffective. Because right now, there's indications that it can save lives, and the actual problem we're facing is that potentially life-saving information is being shut down.

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