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Re:Facebook is pressuring its independent fact-checkers to c... by oblio on Sunday August 23, 2020 @07:44AM (#24251217)
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/86487

Also:

> Willis: Is it safe to say that anything that cannot be patented has been shut down intentionally because there's no way to profit from it, all these natural remedies that we have had forever?

> Mikovits: Absolutely, that's fair to say.

While obviously there are abuses from time to time (if you want a good example, check out the history of leaded gasoline :-| ), what she's saying is absolutely crazy. You're not going to cure cancer with "natural remedies". You're not going to cure Alzheimers with "natural remedies". That alone is enough to discredit the source.

You don't even need to go too deep into character assassination, it's blatant that she's an untrustworthy source if you actually do some research, instead of going on gut feelings.

I can't believe I'm having this discussion on HN...

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Re:Facebook is pressuring its independent fact-checkers to c... by skindoe on Sunday August 23, 2020 @08:36AM (#24251454)
So attributing views to her that she did not claim does not count either...

It does not sound like she made a claim regarding the efficacy of natural remedies rather questioning the default labeling of non profitable treatments as pseudoscientific junk.

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Re:Facebook is pressuring its independent fact-checkers to c... by oblio on Sunday August 23, 2020 @09:21AM (#24251726)
She literally replied "absolutely". The whole documentary is made in bad faith. She's supposed to be a scientist, what kind of an answer is that? The only benefit of the doubt I can give her is that she's being quoted out of context.
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Re:Facebook is pressuring its independent fact-checkers to c... by zaroth on Sunday August 23, 2020 @01:06PM (#24253330)
It’s a poor form of argumentation to find a technically “absolute” statement someone makes and entirely invalidate the argument because nothing in this world is absolutely true.
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Re:Facebook is pressuring its independent fact-checkers to c... by oblio on Sunday August 23, 2020 @01:34PM (#24253608)
I'd argue about this but I think it's better if you watch the video I linked 2 comments up.
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