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View submission: An update on COVID-19 policies and actions
1. health misinformation (falsifiable health-related information that is disseminated regardless of intent)
What does this mean? I'm on r/CFS and a couple of other chronic illness subs that cater to people with controversial medical conditions. The CDC long denied that chronic fatigue syndrome was a real condition, it's only in the last few years that mainstream researchers have begun to take it seriously.
If you aren't going to consider intent, a lot of well-meaning subs could be banned for opposing the current consensus on treatment of various illnesses.
Comment by fighterace00 at 01/09/2021 at 19:52 UTC
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And homosexuality was a verifiable psychological condition until recent history
Comment by jackcaboose at 01/09/2021 at 20:20 UTC
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If you aren't going to consider intent, a lot of well-meaning subs could be banned for opposing the current consensus on treatment of various illnesses.
What do you think the intent of anti-vaxxers is? To sow chaos and misinform people for the sheer thrill of it? They thought they were genuinely correct and trying to help. Intent is meaningless, everyone has "good intentions".