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Why is a link to AAPS, widely known for spreading medical misinformation, on this site? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_American_Physicians_and_Su

Why is a link to AAPS, widely known for spreading medical misinformation, on this site? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_American_Physicians_and_Surgeons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_American_Physic...

newacct583 5y ago
This is what the flag button is for.
smileypete 5y ago
Please, if there is any misinformation in the article, tell us where it is. IMO a number of high profile politicians and corporate media are also guilty of misinformation. Eg 'pandemic of the unvaccinated'. This seems to equate no immunity with naturally acquired immunity, and must surely be misinformation, but much of the media is blind to it.
- etchalon 5y ago
  The article contains no misinformation because it contains no information. It's a useless article posted by an organization that would obviously be for the widespread freedom of quacks to post junk without oversight.
cotelletta 5y ago
Just because Wikipedia says it, doesn't mean it's widely known or accurate. Labeling things as denialism is itself a common trick in misinformation. It flattens whatever the original argument was. There is a common conflation today where criticism of X policy is confused with being anti-X. The medical censorship is getting so bad that organizations like this now seem pretty useful and on point. I don't need to agree with all their claims to have common ground with them. Certainly more than the people who see covid as an endless license to control what others are allowed to read or hear.
- etchalon 5y ago
  This organization is not useful.
  - cotelletta 5y ago
    In a pandemic, we make weird friends. I much prefer some pro conservative anti abortion org asking for less censorship than a dozen woke newspapers and rumor mills calling me a fascist or antivaxxer because I don't treat science as an unquestionable holy cow. Or while propping up corrupt politicians because they're on the same team. I don't need to agree with someone 100% in order to agree that doing X will make the world more like what i want it to be like. In this case, if this org is wrong, the answer is counterspeech based on facts, not shooing people away from afar without a chance to listen. Because that is the tic of the authoritarian who is intellectually bankrupt.
    - etchalon 5y ago
      There are intellectually honest organizations and groups that are asking questions and challenging censorship without being the garbage pile of ideologically-driven pseudoscience that AAPS advocates. Make better friends.

newacct583 5y ago

This is what the flag button is for.

smileypete 5y ago

Please, if there is any misinformation in the article, tell us where it is. IMO a number of high profile politicians and corporate media are also guilty of misinformation. Eg 'pandemic of the unvaccinated'. This seems to equate no immunity with naturally acquired immunity, and must surely be misinformation, but much of the media is blind to it.

etchalon 5y ago
The article contains no misinformation because it contains no information. It's a useless article posted by an organization that would obviously be for the widespread freedom of quacks to post junk without oversight.

cotelletta 5y ago

Just because Wikipedia says it, doesn't mean it's widely known or accurate. Labeling things as denialism is itself a common trick in misinformation. It flattens whatever the original argument was. There is a common conflation today where criticism of X policy is confused with being anti-X. The medical censorship is getting so bad that organizations like this now seem pretty useful and on point. I don't need to agree with all their claims to have common ground with them. Certainly more than the people who see covid as an endless license to control what others are allowed to read or hear.

etchalon 5y ago
This organization is not useful.
- cotelletta 5y ago
  In a pandemic, we make weird friends. I much prefer some pro conservative anti abortion org asking for less censorship than a dozen woke newspapers and rumor mills calling me a fascist or antivaxxer because I don't treat science as an unquestionable holy cow. Or while propping up corrupt politicians because they're on the same team. I don't need to agree with someone 100% in order to agree that doing X will make the world more like what i want it to be like. In this case, if this org is wrong, the answer is counterspeech based on facts, not shooing people away from afar without a chance to listen. Because that is the tic of the authoritarian who is intellectually bankrupt.
  - etchalon 5y ago
    There are intellectually honest organizations and groups that are asking questions and challenging censorship without being the garbage pile of ideologically-driven pseudoscience that AAPS advocates. Make better friends.