Scientist finds early virus sequences that had been mysteriously deleted

Re:Scientist finds early virus sequences that had been myste... by busymom0 on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @07:00PM (#27611639)

His main criticism is with

1. Not allowing dissenting opinions in the scientific community along with silencing any criticism from both media and big tech. If we are silencing dissenting view points, then are we really getting the truth?

2. Pushing it on pregnant women, kids and healthy youngsters where the risk vs reward isn't in favour.

3. Pushing it on people who have already recovered from COVID. There's no reason for this.

I was hoping that after what's happened in the last 1.5 year (and even past centuries), we would have learnt our lessons on how bad censorship is. But people don't learn their lessons. Bret correctly called it "intellectual authoritarianism".

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Re:Scientist finds early virus sequences that had been myste... by abnry on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @07:34PM (#27611949)

Absolutely. It starts to get a little too deep down the rabbit hole for me saying that Ivermeticin being withheld is the "crime of the century" and that it isn't being used because it isn't patented and so there is no financial incentive to use it. It's a bold claim which I don't know how well is supported. But he deserves his uncensored say, especially since the whole lab-leak hypothesis debacle. Big Tech has acted shamefully in all of this. It is increasingly clear now.

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Re:Scientist finds early virus sequences that had been myste... by eloff on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @09:10PM (#27612693)

I think 2 is debatable, and not vaccinating specific groups takes away from herd immunity, which hurts everyone. To be fair he discussed that criticism.

He's completely right about 1 and 3.

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Re:Scientist finds early virus sequences that had been myste... by gameswithgo on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @07:07PM (#27611709)

Everyone here hears about Weinstein literally every day. He and his brother may be the least silenced people in history. As well I have been twitter mobbed by Eric, making my account useless for quite a while. so he is perfectly happy to silence people who critique him I guess.

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Re:Scientist finds early virus sequences that had been myste... by busymom0 on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @08:17PM (#27612319)

> least silenced people in history

His YouTube channel's already got strikes and videos taken down and demonetized. He's moving his podcast over to Odysee because of this. His ArticlesOfUnity twitter account (unrelated to COVID) was banned too.

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Re:Scientist finds early virus sequences that had been myste... by chillwaves on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @08:36PM (#27612455)

Are they applying rules especially to him? Or are they not making exceptions for him?

I don't see a problem with the latter. It is almost always the latter.

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Re:Scientist finds early virus sequences that had been myste... by busymom0 on Thursday June 24, 2021 @02:09AM (#27614471)

> It is almost always the latter.

That tells me nothing will change your mind as it indicates that you still think social media censorship is anywhere remotely fair.

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