poopinasock

poopinasock t1_iu7je90 wrote

This is a horrible idea. I follow a bunch of doctors on YT. One, specifically, is a former student/friend of one of the FDA chairs that voted against the latest booster approval. He did a deep dive into the actual evidence and pointed out - there isn't really enough evidence (hint: it was something like a dozen rats used as a basis, only testing for a specific marker that's for an ancestral strain) given where we are with the pandemic to warrant their use. That in itself would be enough to run afoul of content moderators since it's counter to the FDA decision, despite several board members having voted against. The guy isn't anti-vax by any means, he consistently reiterates the support for vaccines for everyone, but stuff like public health policy (school shutdowns, masking, etc.) aren't as crystal clear as a lot of people are making it out to be. Dissent is a critical part of the advancement of medicine and science. If you squash their voices, it only hurts everyone in the long run.

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