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YouTube removes interview with professor of medicine on Covid stats and policy

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Re: YouTube removes interview with professor of medicine on Covid stats and policy

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The virus is “getting tired” globally at the same time!? That sounds almost mystical.

Wasn't that what people were predicting would happen in the summer since the beginning? And then probably with a rebound in autumn/next winter.

That's not so great news for the southern half of the planet.

Re: YouTube removes interview with professor of medicine on Covid stats and policy

#44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Alternative medicine is mostly bunk, but I absolutely don't agree that it constitutes "harmful or dangerous countent" or should be banned from Youtube. Disputing the consensus should not by itself be forbidden, even when the consensus is accurate and important.

Take a look at http://whatstheharm.net/ That should give you a better idea of what harms alternative medicine quackery can cause.

I have no doubt that believing dumb things can cause you to make bad decisions. I just don't agree that being wrong is "dangerous" in the normal sense of the word, and I don't think that banning people from saying dumb things is a good or effective solution.

It's another story when people are actively running interference. I've seen messages like "don't go to the doctor for your cancer", and I agree those should be suppressed. But that doesn't seem to be what's happening here.

Re: YouTube removes interview with professor of medicine on Covid stats and policy

#45

The virus is “getting tired” globally at the same time!? That sounds almost mystical.

Wasn't that what people were predicting would happen in the summer since the beginning? And then probably with a rebound in autumn/next winter.

1. No, people weren't predicting that the virus would "get tired".

2. Even if we generously interpret this as meaning that the virus would be less infectious in warmer weather, the only evidence we had pointed to this as only a possibility, rather than something we could predict.

3. As summer has begun in the Northern hemisphere, we still don't have any good evidence that the virus is less infectious in warmer weather--certainly not in the Southern US where the disease continues to spread unchecked.

Re: YouTube removes interview with professor of medicine on Covid stats and policy

#47

The virus is “getting tired” globally at the same time!? That sounds almost mystical.

I don't think they mean that literally, but are saying that there is some mechanism that is causing the virus to spread less.

Re: YouTube removes interview with professor of medicine on Covid stats and policy

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post #43

The virus is “getting tired” globally at the same time!? That sounds almost mystical.

No idea if the claim is true, but that's exactly what you'd expect from "pockets of immunity".

As mindless replicators, viruses are also incentivized to mutate into less deadly forms over time, so as to spread more effectively.

Re: YouTube removes interview with professor of medicine on Covid stats and policy

#49

There are two separate issues here: 1. Non-science: calling Karol Sikora a "professor of medicine" hides the fact that he's an oncologist; if he ever had any expertise it was in cancer, not epidemics, and he has no business speaking outside his field. Sikora is also a fellow of The Princes Foundation For Integrated Health and a professional member of the generically-named College Of Medicine. Both of these organizati…

Sakora is the latter, and the problem with this viewpoint is publishing the truth elsewhere doesn't stop people from absorbing the lies here. Somebody consuming this content is not likely to seek out alternative viewpoints to correct themselves. The information is dangerous, it should not be available.

Re: YouTube removes interview with professor of medicine on Covid stats and policy

#50

Hardly surprising that a video full of dangerous misinformation has been pulled. It would be worth reading about this particular professor on Wikipedia, particularly his support for alternative medicine, his false claim to have been a professor at Imperial college, and his claim that the UK's NHS is "the last bastion of communism". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karol_Sikora

So what is so dangerous about it? Perhaps you need to consult a dictionary as to what danger really is. I don't know these people that made the video and I don't subscribe to magic crystals or whatever they are pushing/saying but I do know what Epidemiologist Neil Ferguson from Imperial college created in his flawed modeling - a world wide panic. That is what has been dangerous. Google is a private company I suppose and they can do whatever they want but it would be better to leave their videos up so they can be "peer reviewed" and mocked if what they are saying is farcical. Just like we do with these ladies: https://youtu.be/B4s9GLWiUJM
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