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Re:YouTube suspends Rand Paul for seven days by cogman10 on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @06:29PM (#28148687)
> He could have, but he didn't. You're not his editor.

You're right, in a separate video [1] he said "We will not wear masks!". He isn't saying "cloth masks suck, I'd be ok if we did better masks" He's saying "cloth masks suck, we should not wear any masks". Directly. No editorializing needed.

> He's also a physician. He might know something about infectious diseases that you don't.

Dr Oz is also a physician. He constantly tells people to buy dumb shit like green coffee to cure cancer.

The fact of the matter is, Paul was an Ophthalmologist. Do you take infectious disease advice from your dentist? The fact that he can say he's a medical doctor is true, but his field is completely unrelated to the field of infectious disease.

The actual experts in the field are telling us to social distance and wear masks. Paul is telling people to rise up, take off their masks, and ignore these plain sense precautions [1].

> I for one want to hear his expertise, even if it disagrees with the conclusions you've already made.

Hear what he has to say, but frankly, he's as big a hack as Dr Oz.

[1] https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1424399282447298563

Edit: Phil->Oz

Re:YouTube suspends Rand Paul for seven days by nradov on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @06:58PM (#28149073)
Dr. Phil (McGraw) isn't a physician. He was a psychologist.
Re:YouTube suspends Rand Paul for seven days by cogman10 on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @07:02PM (#28149138)
I'm thinking Dr Oz. I get my bullshit daytime tv doctors mixed up.
Re:YouTube suspends Rand Paul for seven days by xanaxagoras on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @06:58PM (#28149078)
Dr. Phil isn't a doctor. He has a Ph.D. He had a license to practice psychology in Texas that he voluntarily surrendered because of some complaint or something, I'm not going to read the details. Jill Biden isn't a doctor either. Neither is Julius "Dr. J" Erving. People can call themselves doctors without being doctors. Rand Paul is a doctor.