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Originally Posted by mopek1
True. As long as we all get a chance to talk about it, without being censored, cancelled or shamed for putting forth our ideas.
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Science doesn't really care about your "ideas". What it absolutely loves is people asking questions and getting to understand the data - both what the studies are saying and their limitations.
So yes, let's have a discussion. But the ground rules have to be that scientific findings have far greater weight than a lay person's beliefs and ideas. The problem lately is that certain news sources have been giving equal or greater weight to unfounded theories than they are to rigorously produced scientific findings. That type of discussion is harmful (in this case to public health) so it deserves censorship. People's lives are at risk. They deserve the actual facts so they can make informed decisions.