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DrHilarius

As always, the standard gimmick of neoliberalism is to pin the blame for the collateral damage of its policies on the relatively powerless people who refuse its self-serving "solutions."
> The primary concern from day one has been the capacity of our healthcare systems.

This is clearly not the case for the vast swaths of our public health institutions who have supported and eagerly carried out mass terminations of healthcare workers who refuse the Covid vaccines.

Re:Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg on Friday December 17, 2021 @11:57PM (#29601796)
It wasn't clear from the original article whether FDA notified the whistleblower's employer or they found out on their own somehow.
Re:Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg on Friday December 17, 2021 @04:05PM (#29598340)
> The questions are all whether this one company had poor practices.

If the FDA did not follow up on the whistleblower report it raises far broader questions about oversight of the trials as a whole.

Re:Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg on Friday December 17, 2021 @02:13PM (#29596946)
You're looking at the date on the original whistleblower article in the BMJ. The open letter is dated today.
Re:Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg on Friday December 17, 2021 @01:12PM (#29595919)
It's not credible to assume that this is a one-off instance of incompetence on Facebook's part, it's of a piece with all their other fact checking and moderation policies around this issue.
Re:If It Bleeds, It Leads: Understanding Fear-Based Media (2011) on Thursday December 16, 2021 @10:07PM (#29587210)
> The success of fear-based news relies on presenting dramatic anecdotes in place of scientific evidence, promoting isolated events as trends, depicting categories of people as dangerous and replacing optimism with fatalistic thinking.
Would think it would then be a trivial matter to point to some sort of actual errors in reasoning or conclusions in the actual post.