Side effect worry grows for AstraZeneca vaccine

Re:Side effect worry grows for AstraZeneca vaccine by matsemann on Sunday April 04, 2021 @04:14PM (#26692486)

While it's sad that legitimate questions can label one, it's because "just asking questions" is a rhetoric now often used by trolls or conspiracy nuts. So most of these questions aren't really "reasonable", they are done in bad faith.

See: "JAQing off" or https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions

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Re:Side effect worry grows for AstraZeneca vaccine by stcredzero on Sunday April 04, 2021 @04:23PM (#26692557)

So most of these questions aren't really "reasonable", they are done in bad faith.

Ask yourself this: Would a policy automatically labelling any question as conspiracy nut rhetoric, be acting in good faith? Such a policy could easily be exploited by a bad faith actor to silence actual substantive questions.

IMO, and from what I have seen, rationalwiki has a poor record, when it comes to intellectual integrity.

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Re:Side effect worry grows for AstraZeneca vaccine by throw0101a on Sunday April 04, 2021 @04:22PM (#26692548)

> […] is a rhetoric now often used by trolls or conspiracy nuts.

Can be used a DoS to eat up someone's time in responding to things:

> Sealioning (also spelled sea-lioning and sea lioning) is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with persistent requests for evidence or repeated questions, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity.[1][2][3][4] It may take the form of "incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate".[5]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

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