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Videos like this not only spread false info, they do something more pernicious by distorting or distracting an already partially-numerate public from understand
by SkyMarshal 7y ago
Videos like this not only spread false info, they do something more pernicious by distorting or distracting an already partially-numerate public from understanding growth rates and scale. Eg, the important thing about an outbreak is its second and third derivatives, rate of growth and rate of rate of growth.
Here they claim SARS-NCOV-2 is "similar in prevalance and death rate" to flu, somehow missing the fact that the former reached that point in one month and keeps going unless extensive social distancing, lockdowns and mask wearing is put in place.
I hate censorship, but I support censoring information sourced from the idiocracy (or malevolent foreign power as the case may be).
- foolinaround 7y agoi am almost with you there, but i see youtube as a biased actor also, when experts themselves (not these 2 guys) have come up with different recommendations - and cant agree with themselves, youtube should allow a free exchange of ideas. they are free (and should) to add a notice that says that it is potentially false, etc.
- SkyMarshal 7y agoYes YouTube and Google appear to have deprioritized neutrality in recent years, which I think is a mistake for them. But I also think this particular instance is not the right hill for people who care about that to die on. It’s a form of falsely or mistakenly crying wolf and will cost them credibility.