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A comment on Royal Society cautions against censorship of scientific misinformation online. Parent comment

Re:Royal Society cautions against censorship of scientific m... by donw on Sunday January 30, 2022 @07:34PM (#30142909)
Science and academia have pushed with all their might over the past few years to convince anybody with a functioning brain that random YouTube videos are, in fact, better sources for truthful information.

Censorship is a short-term game.

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Re:Royal Society cautions against censorship of scientific m... by andrecarini on Sunday January 30, 2022 @08:04PM (#30143161)
> Science and academia have pushed [...] to convince [...] that random YouTube videos are, in fact, better sources for truthful information.

I don't follow, could you please expand?

I don't see how YouTube could be a better source for certain fields of information (say, medicine) than a collection of scientific studies.

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