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Re:Platforms' current attempts to regulate misinformation am... by tsimionescu on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @01:27PM (#24344272)
If I tell you that Barrack Obama was actually born in Kenya, how will logic and reasoning help you recognize this as the misinformation that it is?

A lot of misinformation, I would guess the vast majority, starts from false "facts" but builds logically on those. "Rea searchers have found that vaccines cause autism, so we should avoid vaccines for mild or unlikely diseases, lest our children catch autism" - the reasoning is pretty sound, except that the "fact" it starts from is an utter lie.

Now, I would still say that, rather than silencing these opinions, it is more important for them to be combated at every opportunity, with the real truth, which is indeed a form of education.

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Re:Platforms' current attempts to regulate misinformation am... by giantg2 on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @06:04PM (#24347673)
Part of philosophical instruction on logical arguments requires that the premises be rooted in facts that the other party can verify.
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Re:Platforms' current attempts to regulate misinformation am... by pessimizer on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @11:43PM (#24349781)
I might be lazy, but I don't have time to verify the long-term effects of vaccines myself.
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Re:Platforms' current attempts to regulate misinformation am... by giantg2 on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @07:08AM (#24352029)
Really? There's 30 years of VAERS data available online as well as literature on PubMed. In fact, I have to do data analysis on VAERS myself. My kid had an adverse event after getting 4 vaccines at once. All the doctors we saw said it couldn't possibly be related, yet I see other reports of this condition in the VAERS data. The doctors weren't able to show me any PubMed data to support their claim either. I have to formally crunch the numbers but only .07% of the population in my kid's age group presents with the condition in a year. That's one hell of a coincidence that it happened 48 hours after the vaccines. If I find enough other data then it should be pretty easy to show a correlation.
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