I am 57 and that is my picture in my avatar from January of this year preaching at my church on the text: "The Kingdom of God is Nigh unto You." In the chat app your age/gender and marital status shows up when you click the persons name.
Ah ok New York, Ok... Im new to the forum...
Knowing now that you in New York, i know that u probably seen the worse of it...
But with "fact checking" and "misinformation", what i refer to as "censorship", i want to take it out of this covid context and into a different one... Cos i did high school early 90s then uni by 2000. Engineering is an applied science, so is medicine.
These new terms, that i see as being censorships, was unseen in university among the hard sciences...
Everyone shows their hand, on the table, no games. The facts are always found and truth is always revealed.
And being a follower of science going way back this method was used by all the great thinkers
Anyway... I'll give a hypothetical example... Remove yourself from covid for a minute
Lets say that America was going to send men to the moon but are torn over which approach to take.
Half of the scientists support approach A and say that approach B will lead to a catastrophe.
The other half support approach B and say that approach A will be a catastrophe.
Who do u censor?
Who does Mark Zuckerberg remove as "misinformation"? Who does CNN, BBC and the other media outlets cancel???
Any rocket scientists around, uh, no, anyone... It really does invite corruption... Open lobbying...It becomes an auction...
The group of scientists that can "ally" with the most media outlets will have their approach promoted and the opposing approach will be demonized... And so it gets dominated by the dollar...
I dunno if that all made sense but, censorship in science, its not how we roll in engineering