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Amazon sells surgery manuals: https://www.amazon.com/Washington-Manual-Surgery-Lippincott-ebook/dp/B017ACIHZU https://www.amazon.com/Washington-Manual-Surgery-L
by kilo_bravo_3 8y ago
Amazon sells surgery manuals: https://www.amazon.com/Washington-Manual-Surgery-Lippincott-ebook/dp/B017ACIHZU https://www.amazon.com/Washington-Manual-Surgery-Lippincott-...
If they carried a surgery manual that told its readers that the proper procedure for a tonsillectomy involved removing the spleen, it would be wrong to sell it.
Refusing to sell a book that tells its readers that autism can be cured by drinking camel milk or bathing in chlorine dioxide is not wrong, it is the correct and moral stance.
If they sold a car repair manual that told its readers the proper way to fix a clogged fuel injector was to stuff bananas into the throttle body, I would expect that Amazon would refuse to sell it once it was brought to their attention.
I don't understand the cries of "censorship!"
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoWhat's the measure of harm? They sell a ton of self-help books, ... if the advice isn't scientifically beneficial then do those books get dropped? Drinking camel milk is probably not harming people (unless they have an allergy/intolerance, but that's besides the point). Do people with investing systems have to prove they work? No, I don't want to see people harming themselves or their kids with bad advice.
- crooked-v 8y ago> Drinking camel milk is probably not harming people (unless they have an allergy/intolerance, but that's besides the point). Drinking camel milk with the presumption that it will cure cancer is comparatively harmful, given the end result as contrasted to actually being treated for cancer with medicine. > Do people with investing systems have to prove they work? The analogy in this case would be an investing system that provably does not work under even the most casual inspection, like "set your money on fire and bury the ashes and it will grow a money tree".