I’m amazed both by the substantial lack of key evidence regarding the effectivity and safety of at least some vaccines, and by the radicalization of the discourse everywhere, even here, where you can rarely express an opinion without being heavily censored or criticised.
I gain nothing by doubting the effectivity and safety of any treatment. I don’t work in the industry, I don’t monetize my opinions, I don’t even get social points. If I express my doubts is because I’m worried and want to know the truth. For some reason, this is politically incorrect in most circumstances.
Why and how this topic became taboo? Even if I’m stupid, and ignorant, I act in good faith, I truly want to know and, in case I’m right, to help people. Why am I censored for asking questions and showing some weak points in the narrative?
There’s a difference between asking questions and making arguments where you expect other people to watch Youtube videos, especially in the comments of another thread that’s not centrally about vaccination.
If you want to make a point about common beliefs about the deaths prevented by vaccines being wrong, it would make more sense to do that as a top-level post and lay out the full argument so that it’s not necessary to watch any external websites to judge the argument.
That’s a good argument, thank you. I see how expecting people to watch videos about one little assumption made in the original message instead of carefully laying out the core of the arguments and presenting them in a way that more precisely answered to my concerns about what was written in the thread was a bad approach and could be interpreted as too general or derailing even. I will try to do better next time.
I’m amazed both by the substantial lack of key evidence regarding the effectivity and safety of at least some vaccines, and by the radicalization of the discourse everywhere, even here, where you can rarely express an opinion without being heavily censored or criticised.
An example:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Ccv8PinXRgRTKpGaj/what-we-ve-learned-so-far-from-our-technological-temptations?commentId=P9SMrtmmznTxF8q3Q
I gain nothing by doubting the effectivity and safety of any treatment. I don’t work in the industry, I don’t monetize my opinions, I don’t even get social points. If I express my doubts is because I’m worried and want to know the truth. For some reason, this is politically incorrect in most circumstances.
Why and how this topic became taboo? Even if I’m stupid, and ignorant, I act in good faith, I truly want to know and, in case I’m right, to help people. Why am I censored for asking questions and showing some weak points in the narrative?
There’s a difference between asking questions and making arguments where you expect other people to watch Youtube videos, especially in the comments of another thread that’s not centrally about vaccination.
If you want to make a point about common beliefs about the deaths prevented by vaccines being wrong, it would make more sense to do that as a top-level post and lay out the full argument so that it’s not necessary to watch any external websites to judge the argument.
That’s a good argument, thank you. I see how expecting people to watch videos about one little assumption made in the original message instead of carefully laying out the core of the arguments and presenting them in a way that more precisely answered to my concerns about what was written in the thread was a bad approach and could be interpreted as too general or derailing even. I will try to do better next time.
I searched on lesswrong for “vaccine aluminum” and found a guy complaining about these same issues 8 years ago. Seems we sent their comments to the shadow realm