YouTube starts mass takedowns of videos promoting ‘harmful or ineffective’ cancer cures | The platform will also take action against videos that discourage people from seeking professional medical …::YouTube will remove content about harmful or ineffective cancer treatments or which “discourages viewers from seeking professional medical treatment.”

  • Zebov@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Who determines what is ineffective or harmful?

    I mean chemo isn’t puppies and rainbows.

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      1 year ago

      Science and scientific studies help determine what is ineffective or harmful, the problem is the FDA doesn’t have authority over shit plenty of things - a person can go on YouTube and say drinking their special bottled water will cure cancer, and they don’t fall into FDA guidelines so they are free to claim whatever they want, essentially. These woo-woo type cure-alls have gotten into trouble with the FDA because of their ridiculous and unfactual, unproven claims, but that’s usually where the lawyer wordsmiths show up to change the wording just enough to not get into trouble with the FDA.

      There is a whole history of pseudoscience as an industry and how it was able to bribe/lobby for its current position in public view (since you even have to ask this question)

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      1 year ago

      I mean chemo is effective. It fucks you up. But it’s pretty good at “curing” cancer.