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YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation

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Re: YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation

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I'd like to see evidence for a lot of these claims that come from reliable sources cause I don't think the majority of them are true. > - anyone who has claimed election interference on the 2020 election has been threatened with lawsuits, lost jobs, etc I feel this is an especially interesting claim because the only people i've seen get hit with law suits for this have continually defamed specific companies and not j…

>I'd like to see evidence for a lot of these claims that come from reliable sources cause I don't think the majority of them are true. This is effectively a disingenuous argument when the evidence clearly suggests that so called "reliable sources" are colluding to suppress content that is inconvenient for their political leanings. Incidentally it also ensures that all of wikipedia leans left, since any outlets which…

The reason I say reliable is not because I only want sources from one specific side or that say one specific thing. But because there are plenty of sources who are willing to say anything to please a specific party or person which is the exact reason some people are being sued into the ground.

Re: YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation

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I think you'd be pretty hard pressed to argue that the Hunter Biden stories weren't suppressed until after the election. Those stories and corresponding evidence were around before the election. They were completely buried wherever possible, and dismissed as conspiracy theories by the mainstream media when they couldn't bury them. It was only after the election that they were forced to admit that the Hunter Biden sto…

Forced to admit that what Hunter Biden stories were factual? And did any of those stories relate to Joe Biden?

Joe Biden (via Hunter) was/is literally doing the thing they tried to impeach Trump over.

I'd say that's related!

Re: YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation

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I’ve been led to believe that the Pfizer vaccine (being distributed in US) has not been granted an official FDA approval…though the media outlets state otherwise. I’ve tried to look for documentation on FDA’s website with little to no success. Can someone please provide me a link to FDA approval notice of the Pfizer vaccine that is being distributed here in the US?

What does this have to do with the topic at hand?

site:fda.gov pfizer approval

Re: YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation

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I think you'd be pretty hard pressed to argue that the Hunter Biden stories weren't suppressed until after the election. Those stories and corresponding evidence were around before the election. They were completely buried wherever possible, and dismissed as conspiracy theories by the mainstream media when they couldn't bury them. It was only after the election that they were forced to admit that the Hunter Biden sto…

Forced to admit that what Hunter Biden stories were factual? And did any of those stories relate to Joe Biden?

They share a bank account, Joe had an “office” at the failed business Hunter tried to start, and in his emails – if true, as at least some of them have been cryptographically verified to be – Hunter claims he sends a percent of all his income to his dad, a credible claim given the eye-witness corroboration of a similar communique between financial partners affirming an equity stake in a Chinese venture of “10% for the big guy” – who an eye witness identifies as none other than the incorruptible Scranton Joe himself.

Re: YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation

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That was not an answer to his question, and I am really curious for an answer to it because I think it's a valid and reasonable point. Also, as to whether believing scientific general consensus should count as "faith" or not, I invite you to read Issac Asimov's short essay "The Relativity of Wrong".

OP's question appears to invert the burden of proof in assuming that a consensus, even of experts, ought to be believed unless there are compelling reasons not to accept it. Where is the evidence that a consensus is a good metric for the truth of a matter? Has there been any work done to establish such a correspondence? Asimov seems to be arguing that there are degrees of wrongness, and one can become less wrong by a…

> OP's question appears to invert the burden of proof in assuming that a consensus, even of experts, ought to be believed unless there are compelling reasons not to accept it.

Again, I pose the question, what is a reasonable alternative?

>Asimov seems to be arguing that there are degrees of wrongness, and one can become less wrong by a process of rational error elimination and criticism. How does the mere fact of a consensus have any bearing on this process?

The scientific process IS a process of rational error elimination and criticism. Scientific consensus is the result of the majority of experts in a field using the scientific process to agree on the "least wrong" information possible given the data available at that time. If you claim not to see the bearing on this process, you're being dishonestly obtuse.

> Where is the evidence that a consensus is a good metric for the truth of a matter? Has there been any work done to establish such a correspondence?

I think you have the causal chain backwards; the evidence of a good metric for the truth of a matter is what builds consensus. If the evidence is incompatible with consensus, and it holds up to scrutiny & reproduction, then the consensus changes to match. Either way, the end result is that consensus is an improving approximation to "the truth". If you have a better way of obtaining "the truth", I would be very glad to learn about it.

Re: YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation

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Well, it's not tech bros so much as it's the people failing to know where to get their information. Tech bros gon' tech bro, why would you try to get your news from them?

Yeah, sure, I get it, you get it, but how many people do you think realize that the programmers at google effectively gatekeep search results?

Right, but I'm thoroughly unconvinced we should step in to decide how people consume information, one way or another. The arguments that rely on, "Most people are stupid and can't figure these things out for themselves." are really just riffs on, "We should control what people think."

Re: YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation

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Forced to admit that what Hunter Biden stories were factual? And did any of those stories relate to Joe Biden?

They share a bank account, Joe had an “office” at the failed business Hunter tried to start, and in his emails – if true, as at least some of them have been cryptographically verified to be – Hunter claims he sends a percent of all his income to his dad, a credible claim given the eye-witness corroboration of a similar communique between financial partners affirming an equity stake in a Chinese venture of “10% for th…

Can you provide a link to any of those stories from before the election? I can't find anything about the bank account earlier than Oct 12th.

I don't see how that could have been "suppressed" if it only came out very recently.

Re: YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation

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It's way more than a meme! "Let's go Brandon" was #1 on itunes for days. Another version was #3. Another version was #17. All at the same time! Huge swaths of people from from highly diverse backgrounds are unifing against what they see as poor leadership. They are totally trying to sow FUD into the narrative form political purpose.

> Huge swaths of people from from highly diverse backgrounds are unifing against what they see as poor leadership. The swathes are huge! The hugest and huge in... in diversity too! You know, when it comes to swathes, my swathes - you see, the thing is that I... I understand the big heart you need to be part of a swathe. And I'm part of this heart. This heart... this heart is me, really. I came up with it and when I d…

> And I looked out across all these smiling, white faces and said, you better believe it. We are the swathiest!

You know the artist in question, Bryson Gray, is a black man?

PS. You murdered my usage of the word swath. Congratulations?

Re: YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation

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> When reporters lie then there careers should be over. hahahahaha ... no but really, were you born yesterday? I am kind of curious what the reporter who covered for dear leader thinks of all this, if she's even aware of anything (they rarely are).

If the reporter lacks credibility with the audience they should be fired If a performer, a wrestler, a musician, an actor loses credibility with there audience, you should get a replacement.

And if my grandma had wheels she'd be a wagon.

Re: YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation

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Forced to admit that what Hunter Biden stories were factual? And did any of those stories relate to Joe Biden?

Joe Biden (via Hunter) was/is literally doing the thing they tried to impeach Trump over. I'd say that's related!

Joe Biden / Hunter Biden is doing what exactly?
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