Re:Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg
by rocqua on Saturday December 18, 2021 @04:51PM
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Using an article critical of the pfizer trials in a well balanced truthful way is one thing.
Using that same article to argue that e.g. the government is trying to poison us (or microchip us) is another thing entirely.
I think we need to work against the latter. I don't think censoring good-faith articles that are often abused is the way to do that.
That's what, at their best, most of the media are doing. Presenting well-researched, balanced, truthful stories, carefully selected to promote their own ideology. Forget journalism - this even happens in peer-reviewed science:
Ceci et al. (1985) found a similar pattern. Research proposals hypothesizing either "reverse discrimination" (i.e., against White males) or conventional discrimination (i.e., against ethnic minorities) were submitted to 150 Internal Review Boards. Everything else about the proposals was held constant. The "reverse discrimination" proposals were approved less often than the conventional discrimination proposals. - https://jsis.washington.edu/global/wp-content/uploads/sites/...