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Re:Michael J. Fox Foundation Announces Breakthrough for Park... by JumpCrisscross on Monday May 01, 2023 @09:01AM (#35772204)
> much rather have the information in front of me so I can evaluate it and make my own determinations

This is the danger. Most people, myself included, are not qualified to make that determination alone. In this case, as expected, it looks like it was crap [1][2].

I'm not arguing in any way for censoring anything. But there is legitimate danger when people, often desperate, compare legitimate medical research, which will be subdued, with quackery, which will be ostentatious, and then, worst case, reject the actual medicine or hurt themselves trying to administer rogue therapies.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35771376

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35771048

Re:Michael J. Fox Foundation Announces Breakthrough for Park... by 1234letshaveatw on Monday May 01, 2023 @10:24AM (#35773181)
One notable exception to that is Kyrie Irving and other Covid vaccine skeptics, who were amazingly somehow able to "do their own research"