Re:YouTube bans coronavirus vaccine misinformation
by shadowgovt on Thursday October 15, 2020 @10:31AM
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Banning all practitioners of science who disagree with the current state of science is not how science works.
The jury is a little out on the utility of allowing unpedigreed randos to pontificate on the nature of the science with the same amount of volume and podium-authority as qualified, practicing scientists with years of experience. Academia certainly doesn't consider them the same; we don't allow any random undergraduate to walk up to the podium and kick the lecturing professor off the stage so that they can have 5 minutes to explain how etheric currents are actually what makes lightning work.
We aren't, practically speaking, seeing a lot of evidence that the public can tell the difference right now. This is a problem.
The jury is a little out on the utility of allowing unpedigreed randos to pontificate on the nature of the science with the same amount of volume and podium-authority as qualified, practicing scientists with years of experience. Academia certainly doesn't consider them the same; we don't allow any random undergraduate to walk up to the podium and kick the lecturing professor off the stage so that they can have 5 minutes to explain how etheric currents are actually what makes lightning work.
We aren't, practically speaking, seeing a lot of evidence that the public can tell the difference right now. This is a problem.