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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by tshaddox on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @06:35PM (#28700865)
None of your examples are about the vaccine as far as I can tell. Are you suggesting that because some experts allegedly lied about some things in the past, no experts ought to ever be trusted again about any medical or public health matters?
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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by Kretinsky on Thursday September 30, 2021 @12:41AM (#28703260)
Trust is acquired on the logn run, and can be broken easily. Would you mind if Union Carbide openned a chemical facility near your house? Well, they had the Bhopal disasted[0], but they can be trusted again, right? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster
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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by tshaddox on Thursday September 30, 2021 @03:36AM (#28704021)
And trained pilots cause most plane crashes. Perhaps it’s time to place our trust elsewhere and randomly assign 2 passengers to the cockpit on every commercial flight!
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