YouTube starts mass takedowns of videos promoting “harmful or ineffective” cancer cures
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It’s attempting to streamline its health moderation policies.

YouTube starts mass takedowns of videos promoting ‘harmful or ineffective’ cancer cures | The platform will also take action against videos that discourage people from seeking professional medical …::YouTube will remove content about harmful or ineffective cancer treatments or which “discourages viewers from seeking professional medical treatment.”

  • skillissuerEnglish
    62·
    11 months ago

    YouTube hopes that this policy framework will be flexible enough to cover a broad range of medical topics, while finding a balance between minimizing harm and allowing debate.

    there’s nothing to debate

      • skillissuerEnglish
        91·
        11 months ago

        if you want to determine efficacy of a treatment, you run a clinical trial, not a debate

          • skillissuerEnglish
            42·
            11 months ago

            that’s why we have peer review, replications, editorial standards and so on, if something’s funky with your paper you get a retraction. generally scientific method got pretty good at getting better description of reality over time

              • skillissuerEnglish
                41·
                11 months ago

                science from 200 years ago is not the same thing as we have now ffs

                now, and at basically any point from past hundred years or so, when scientific method was reasonably widely adopted, this method is a tool to avoid repeating mistakes like this

                and at any rate it doesn’t mean that random snake oil peddler, in this case “traditional medicine” flavoured, is more trustworthy than state of the art evidence based medicine, just because science made mistakes in the (distant) past

          • XTL@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            2·
            11 months ago

            Reader described experiencing mild discomfort but no visible signs of cancer.