The social network for doctors is full of vaccine skepticism(cnbc.com)
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The social network for doctors is full of vaccine skepticism
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/06/doximity-social-network-for-doctors-full-of-antivax-disinformation.html
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Are they going to social networks because all other avenues are restricting them from speak out? Is this similar to the metoo movement, where a bunch of females started speaking up on social media because places they have reported abuse to generally have no real outcome?
The title of the article is "The social network for doctors is full of vaccine disinformation".
Given examples of such "disinformation" in my opinion are valid concerns:
"Covid-19 vaccines have already killed over 4,000 adults who’ve received the vaccine" - there is a strong signal that it might be true.
"Articles about vaccines or masks have hundreds of comments, many that are factually inaccurate and often based on conspiracy theories" - lab leak conspiracy has been considered a conspiracy theory for a year or more so I am not sure what they call conspiracy theory now.
So instead of talking about risk analysis, mainstream media just proclaims all negative vaccine comments to be "disinformation".
This is another illustration of loss of trust to important institutions in our society - I hope we are hitting the bottom and will rebound, but not so sure.
Given examples of such "disinformation" in my opinion are valid concerns:
"Covid-19 vaccines have already killed over 4,000 adults who’ve received the vaccine" - there is a strong signal that it might be true.
"Articles about vaccines or masks have hundreds of comments, many that are factually inaccurate and often based on conspiracy theories" - lab leak conspiracy has been considered a conspiracy theory for a year or more so I am not sure what they call conspiracy theory now.
So instead of talking about risk analysis, mainstream media just proclaims all negative vaccine comments to be "disinformation".
This is another illustration of loss of trust to important institutions in our society - I hope we are hitting the bottom and will rebound, but not so sure.