Study: "Censorship and Suppression of Covid-19 Heterodoxy: Tactics and Counter-Tactics"
Abstract
The emergence of COVID-19 has led to numerous controversies over COVID-related knowledge and policy. To counter the perceived threat from doctors and scientists who challenge the official position of governmental and intergovernmental health authorities, some supporters of this orthodoxy have moved to censor those who promote dissenting views. The aim of the present study is to explore the experiences and responses of highly accomplished doctors and research scientists from different countries who have been targets of suppression and/or censorship following their publications and statements in relation to COVID-19 that challenge official views. Our findings point to the central role played by media organizations, and especially by information technology companies, in attempting to stifle debate over COVID-19 policy and measures. In the effort to silence alternative voices, widespread use was made not only of censorship, but of tactics of suppression that damaged the reputations and careers of dissenting doctors and scientists, regardless of their academic or medical status and regardless of their stature prior to expressing a contrary position. In place of open and fair discussion, censorship and suppression of scientific dissent has deleterious and far-reaching implications for medicine, science, and public health.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11024-022-09479-4
>'Let's add to the list "reporting users on Mastodon for misinformation, fake news and conspiracy theories" '
It won't do you any good to report users that you disagree with here. QOTO is an inclusive, Academic Freedom, instance. If you disagree with someone, just counter their statements with reasoned argument and facts.
Also, if anyone intentionally tries to "damaged the reputations and careers of dissenting doctors and scientists", they can get sued and lose a lot money in damages.
Context: it's me that was reported days ago for sharing papers and the mod of this instance had to chim in and state that it was controversial but legitimate.
I'm literally questioning others to teach myself but many people are too lazy to counterargument and prefer to report as misinformation what doesn't fit whatever narrative they inattentively listened to from the mass media.
@post Wow, this is exactly what happened with climate change. No scientific dissent allowed. :)
Yes. Literally impossible for a skeptical¹ person to being convinced because the vast majority of people have accepted everything passively and therefore do not know how to argue.
[1]: skeptical in its orginal meaning of "who is in search", not only doubting (from Ancient Greek σκέψις / sképsis = research).
@post The start of all this is rather sordid. When illustrious people said there was no physics in the 'carbon thermal blanket hypothesis' they were personally attacked and their livelihoods destroyed. And now covid. With both, you can say there is no physics, and that's scientific dissent. It's the new way of enriching the influencers.
@post And when I write my new book "Harried", I'll name names. :)
Let's add to the list "reporting users on Mastodon for misinformation, fake news and conspiracy theories" @freemo