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Your Joe is the average HN reader. My Joe is my average patient. I completely agree that the word of experts is meaningless on matters where dust had no time to
by rscho 5y ago
Your Joe is the average HN reader. My Joe is my average patient. I completely agree that the word of experts is meaningless on matters where dust had no time to settle. I however maintain that practitioners have to follow guidelines and experts regardless because I believe in the principle (if not the current application) of evidence-based medicine, and that Joe should not be allowed free access to any drug he wants to prevent frequent self harm.
- deadpannini 5y agoI agree, but that is quite separate from the posture of epistemological submission to experts that's being used to censor "misinformation".
- jacquesm 5y agoI don't know about that. I'd rather see all of this stuff disappear from youtube and to deny the conspiracy sphere its oxygen than to let this run its course. The damage is very real. Experts tend to communicate via scientific papers and symposia, not via youtube, that's aimed squarely at the masses only a very small fraction of which has the capacity to interpret what they are hearing, but almost all of them have the capacity to filter that to select the bits that they like or that they feel support their pet desired outcomes.
- deadpannini 5y agoThe damage caused by mis- and dis-information is real, but suppressing dissenting voices (even comically mistaken ones and bad actors) destroys institutional credibility, which is far worse in the long run.
- blindmute 5y agoI'd rather allow free speech.