Re: scientists are going to bluesky

On Tue, 26 Nov 2024, JAB wrote:

On Tue, 26 Nov 2024 10:24:59 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
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If people are stupid and do it,
they only have themselves to blame.

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Irrelevant point....

No, you quote me out of context. The context explains why it is not an irrelevant point.

"Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer expressed similar views, whether
comments are "serious or not" she said people listen to those in
power."
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Trump is an illiterate person in regards to medicine, and should have
shut the fuck up.
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Hydroxychloroquine: Trump's Covid-19 'cure' increases deaths, global
study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/may/22/hydroxychloroquine-trumps-covid-19-cure-increases-deaths-global-study-finds
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Ahh... finally a blue sky, fact checked and all, where only the truth will
be allowed to be told!

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When it comes to accepted/known information, and those like Trump who
know nothing on a given topic espouse gibberish, their posts need to
be eliminated.  And what they really need, is the board of education.
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The earth is not flat.....

Yet, many falsehoods were promoted as truths by "fact checkers" during corona.
Insisting that only the truth may be spoken, shows a lack of understanding of modern, wester liberal principles. There is a reason we have them, and that is that it protects us from authoritarianism (where speech is not free) and promotes science.