Remember how President Trump was widely mocked for suggesting that light could be inserted inside of a patient to kill the Wuhan virus? Josh Disbrow, the CEO of Aytu BioScience, has just written an Op-Ed about his company being thrust into the public spotlight:
My team and I knew the president’s comments could trigger a backlash against the idea of UV light as a treatment, which might hinder our ability to get the word out. We decided to create a YouTube account, upload a video animation we had created, and tweet it out. It received some 50,000 views in 24 hours.
Then YouTube took it down. So did Vimeo. Twitter suspended our account. The narrative changed from whether UV light can be used to treat Covid-19 to “Aytu is being censored.”
These days, politics seems to dictate that if one party says, “The sky is blue,” the other party is obligated to reply, “No, it’s not, and you’re a terrible human being for thinking that.” That leaves no room for science, in which the data speak for themselves, regardless of ideology, and only when they’re ready. Unfortunately, the visceral excitement of political conflict draws far more clicks and better ratings than the methodical world of science.
The problem is less politics, and more huge corporations enforcing their view of the correct politics on the world.
The politics of “The sky is blue” vs “The sky is pink” are not the problem. People can use the evidence of their own eyes to decide which is talking garbage, but hiding one side of the argument destroys this. It is bad. It needs to stop.
But, don’t we live in an age in which “the science is settled”? An extension to that is whose science and what defines “settled”?
The future is known. It’s science.
It’s the past that changes.
Enjoy the glorious revolution, comrades!
(heh, captcha “identify tractors”. They are finally recognizing their audience. They don’t know from tractors though, a front-end loader isn’t quite the same thing.)
Then YouTube took it down. So did Vimeo. Twitter suspended our account.
Heavens! You should immediately demand your money back OH WAIT.
If as a CEO you rely on a free third-party service to run a critical part of your business, you’re making a pretty serious error in judgement. If you’re not paying them you have no leverage. Facebook tried this crap with Crowder but because he pays them for advertising placement he had contract law on his side, and kept suing them until they stopped.
This isn’t even a censorship issue; I once had a client whose web app got rendered unreachable for a week by a bug in Google’s free DNS service. Nobody to call and no leverage.
Don’t be silly. They are using YouTube and Vimeo like everyone else– as a platform to get their message out. They were shut down because of the perceived association with Trumps comments. It is yet another example of heavy-handed censorship. The “free” platforms get their revenue from advertising, and these guys were providing free content.
Daniel Ream is correct. Those corporations are run by people of the institutional left. They are posting signs on their property that essentially say that nonconforming opinions are trespassers. Are they small minded, censorious assholes? Of course they are as are most everyone in their political echo chamber. Until someone like Kate creates an alternative competing service, unless you want the state to rule over what can be allowed, all you can do is complain.
**The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1903 was awarded to Niels Ryberg Finsen “in recognition of his contribution to the treatment of diseases, especially lupus vulgaris, with concentrated light radiation, whereby he has opened a new avenue for medical science.”**
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1903/summary/
Remember when Trump was widely mocked for ________________________________ by the “mainstream” media?
Fill in the blanks, anything will do, right or wrong, a lie or the truth, an opinion masquerading as information.
What we are witnessing in these tech companies is simply a rebirth of fascism. The links between the Democrats when they held the Presidency and the tech companies that gave Obama nothing but tongue baths have been broken and the two parties to that fascist union are doing everything they can to reunite.
We’ve known for many years that UV is deadly to viruses of all kinds, particularly in certain frequencies. There’s nothing new here in terms of the basic science. And at those frequencies, UV cannot penetrate human skin or the trace water covering what is routinely on the eye surface. Boots has quite correctly noted this above.
There’s a political issue. Big Pharma generally does not like radiation-based treatment, as it prefers chemical/pharmaceutical solutions (for obvious reasons). Phillip above is generally right in his contention that this is all about “huge corporations enforcing their views about correct politics”. Hence, Trump must be insane to talk about non-pharma treatment or control methods.
this just in [Justin????]:
University researches using a supercomputer to analyse DNA have concluded it lOOks like our pandemic visitor set up house in bats first.
https://london.ctvnews.ca/western-university-study-finds-evidence-covid-19-had-origins-in-bats-1.4914898
therfore, covid 19 is now officially known as ‘Wuhan bat flu from the dictatorship admired by justin’.
also, seems Mags sucked some smoke. was karma involved?
Sparking up a doobie?
The effen chinese.I hope that every effen god-damned chinese restaurant corner srore or business in the whole world goes effn broke.God-damn effn bastards.
Fish hatcheries ‘been using ultraviolet to kill bacteria in the water before it gets to the eggs for a long, long time.
It is surprising that the “journalists” would not know that, then again the “journalists” are the last to know.
If you study geology, primeval life lived below the waterline for a long time, before venturing out to the mud flats. Below 10 cm H2O, life thrived because 10 cm of H2O blocks harmful UV radiation.
We are fractional owners of a lakeside “resort” on the coast, part of the infrastructure is a water system for human consumption. The water is treated by micron filtration, and, UV treatment, as per B.C. Health regulation. Worked perfectly for years.
Don’t let science get in the way of political derangement.
Once you politicize an issue all the decisions regarding that issue are based on politics, not on the issue itself.
Related:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWuCfCSWoAMrA3K?format=jpg&name=large
You collectively allow censorship to proceed. Bemoaning it now, after you have silently accepted the internet giants introducing the censorship and making it their mode of operation, while having accounts on all of them, paying them for advertising, selling products through their online stores, makes as much sense as lipstick on a pig.
I am from the generation that remembers internet newsgroups. They were too nice for the Illuminati: uncensored, uncontrolled, distributed information sharing that anyone could host and archive. The newsgroups have been all but killed and replaced with that what we have now: the instruments of uncontrollable, unchallengeable de-platforming with impunity.
Sucks to be you, so quit whining!