Look, yes, it's hard but we can distinguish against self-serving, profit-driven quackery/actually dangerous advice *and* genuine scientific disagreement. WHO is not The Oracle; the science of a pandemic is evolving. WHO itself is evolving its views.https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1252715349079777280 …
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In this case some overblocking may probably ok, because a lot of those „cures“ are realy deadly shit. Protecting the dumb is probably better than having even more people needing medical assistance right now. I am torn.
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I don’t understand, the main example she gave as misinfo / bad info was about taking Vitamin C, which is demonstrably a good thing to do (roughly on the same level of good advice as “wear a mask”). Isn’t that in itself cause for concern?
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It's not a good thing to do, its a common misconception that vitamin c tablets do anything for this kind of disease. There's a tiny study (read probably noise) on megadose IVs which obviously isn't useful to you or me at homehttps://www.webmd.com/lung/qa/can-vitamin-cs-immune-boosting-effects-ward-off-coronavirus …
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