that's the kind of thinking that is the reason we have such bad medicine. medicine and all its research needs to be open, people have no privacy anywhere else,

that's the kind of thinking that is the reason we have such bad medicine. medicine and all its research needs to be open, people have no privacy anywhere else, and to keep insisting on it for medical data is only allowing governments and huge corporations to take advantage of our lack of knowledge about drug affects etc.. the major reason there is even a debate about vaccines is because of this weird belief that we need to keep medical records siloed from researchers and the public when this information is probably of the highest value to us as a society. but instead we just post everything else about ourselves on the Internet and those things can actually be used to hurt or segregate us from knowledge that will help us overall. one of those weird things I've never understood about society's ability to be completely distracted from its own self interest.