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Re: “YouTube is shutting down dissenting Biology PhDs and MDs”

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Post by eruleman »

Pyramus wrote: post #59
ZephyrBlu wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The company has another upcoming drug they want to push rather than ivermectin: https://twitter.com/BretWeinstein/status/1402647948371005441 E: To add, I'm not a doctor but Brett Weinstein seems adamant that ivermectin is a very safe drug for humans. One point he has made is that because ivermectin is safe for consumption, there's no (Or very little) downside to taking it in an attempt to prevent or help with COVID.

So you are asserting they don't want to benefit from both?

Merck can't benefit from both ivermectin & their new emergency-use-authorized drug. Emergency use authorization requires "no adequate, approved, and available alternatives." [1]

It's against their financial incentive to have ivermectin, an out-of-patent drug, be authorized for treatment of covid. See https://twitter.com/BretWeinstein/status/1402647948371005441...

[1] https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/vaccines/emerge...

Re: “YouTube is shutting down dissenting Biology PhDs and MDs”

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Post by czzr »

sb057 wrote: post #43
tamaharbor wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wasn’t the WHO (and CDC) incorrect regarding several aspects of the recent Coronavirus?

"Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China." https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152

What exactly is wrong in that statement?

Re: “YouTube is shutting down dissenting Biology PhDs and MDs”

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Post by dash2 »

ALittleLight wrote: post #66
piker wrote: post #6

Eric Weinstein is a clown, like, literally. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Weinstein#Physics

This seems to say his proposed "Theory of everything" is lacking in several regards and not a good candidate for scientific or academic research. I don't see how that makes him a clown. He's interested in physics, educated in it, and made some effort to contribute that doesn't seem to have panned out. That strikes me as laudable behavior and not like a "clown". Perhaps you'll say he is a clown because he really belie…

The same could be said in praise of every crank. Presumably if he's a crank about physics, he could also be one about Covid.

Re: “YouTube is shutting down dissenting Biology PhDs and MDs”

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Post by _holographic_ »

jb775 wrote: post #58
MattGaiser wrote: post #14

The makers of Ivermectin are against the use of Ivermectin for Covid. https://www.merck.com/news/merck-statement-on-ivermectin-use... The dissenters are advocating things even the company that stands to profit from those things opposes. That’s how off the deep end this is.

This is all about making money...including the covid vaccine. Covid is even more of a goldmine because they locked in special liability protections. Big money has a decent amount of influence over what information is accessible to the general public. We're witnessing the modern version of burning books...but many are too WOKE to realize.

yeah, the lack of common sense is getting worse by the day, absolutely stunning.

Re: “YouTube is shutting down dissenting Biology PhDs and MDs”

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Post by bonzini »

trentnix wrote: post #17
yashap wrote: post #5

Based on YouTube’s reply, seems they took his video down for promoting dangerous medical misinformation. If that’s what happened, I don’t see an issue.

> Based on YouTube’s reply, seems they took his video down for promoting dangerous medical misinformation. If that’s what happened, I don’t see an issue. After the bang up job they've done dealing with copyright strikes, demonetizing their political enemies, and providing virtually zero support and feedback for the very creators that contribute to the popularity of their platform, you'd have to be a sadomasochist to…

Who did they demonetize? Alex Jones?

Re: “YouTube is shutting down dissenting Biology PhDs and MDs”

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Post by tsimionescu »

micouay wrote: post #42
MattGaiser wrote: post #14

The makers of Ivermectin are against the use of Ivermectin for Covid. https://www.merck.com/news/merck-statement-on-ivermectin-use... The dissenters are advocating things even the company that stands to profit from those things opposes. That’s how off the deep end this is.

1. There's no patent on Ivermectin. (Correct me if I got it wrong) 2. Merck has announced an agreement with US gov for 1.7 mln courses of anew antiviral treatment for $1.2 bln. Also they have no real argument against IM: > No scientific basis for a potential therapeutic effect against COVID-19 from pre-clinical studies; No meaningful evidence for clinical activity or clinical efficacy in patients with COVID-19 diseas…

> Also they have no real argument against IM:

> > No scientific basis for a potential therapeutic effect against COVID-19 from pre-clinical studies; No meaningful evidence for clinical activity or clinical efficacy in patients with COVID-19 disease, and; A concerning lack of safety data in the majority of studies.

If "no basis for a potential therapeutic effect" is not an argument against using it, then why suggest Ivermectin and not some other drug with no known connection to Covid-19? Why Ivermectin and not, I don't know, Escitalopram?

Re: “YouTube is shutting down dissenting Biology PhDs and MDs”

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Post by throwkeep »

piker wrote: post #6

Eric Weinstein is a clown, like, literally. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Weinstein#Physics

“They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.”

― Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science

Re: “YouTube is shutting down dissenting Biology PhDs and MDs”

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Post by tpush »

Turing_Machine wrote: post #48
jwilber wrote: post #25

On the’censored’ man’s attempted foray into a different field, physics: “ The paper qualifies that the author "is not a physicist" but an "entertainer", and it has received strong criticism from the scientific community, including having "no visible impact" and having "gaps both mathematical and physical in origin that jeopardize Geometric Unity as a well-defined theory, much less one that is a candidate for a theory…

From your own source: > Weinstein received his PhD in mathematical physics from Harvard University How is that "not a physicist"? I'm not saying that his theory is valid, mind you -- I don't know anything about it, nor am I myself qualified to judge that. But he clearly is a qualified physicist.

Weinstein ist describing himself like that. Dude's just a (supposedly) entertaining grifter.

Re: “YouTube is shutting down dissenting Biology PhDs and MDs”

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Post by jb775 »

gameswithgo wrote: post #38

Wish a day could go by where i don’t here from a weinstein about how they are being silenced

...but they are being silenced. Are you really not aware of the level of wrongthink censorship going on?

Things are literally being proven true that were censored as "misinformation"(wrongthink) a month ago. Next up: election was actually a huge fraud.

Re: “YouTube is shutting down dissenting Biology PhDs and MDs”

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Post by Aunche »

People with deep agendas like to imagine everyone else has an agenda as well. In reality, YouTube just wants to make as much money as possible. If people die taking alternative medical treatments for covid, an angry mob will come and demand Disney pull ads from YouTube again. If you have a problem with the censorship, blame the cancellers, not YouTube.
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