Fake news about vaccinations could worsen public health
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standaard.bePosted Apr 27, 2018, 5:10 PM UTC
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The problem is that they are endangering all of us with their stupidity.
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Information should not be suppressed, even if it's labeled fake news.
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Read the goddamn article. They're not censoring anything, but are creating their own websites and media channels.
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Currently when you search some key words ("Vaccination", "Danger vaccination", etc.) You only find antivax propaganda. That lets the reader out with the impression that there's only one point of view on the topic, and that there's a debate within the scientific community. That's a very real problem, and I think creating legitimate information websites is the right approach.
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Short article about how the spread of conspiracy theories and fake news about vaccinations in Europe threatens public health. While Flanders has a sufficient high degree of vaccinated people (especially small children), cases of measles (mazelen/rougeole) and diphtheria (difterie/diphtérie) still occur. It is stated an action plan was assembled to halt the dangerous spread of medical misinformation about vaccines.
Edit: "information" changed to "misinformation".
"To halt the dangerous spread of medical information about vaccines"
Oh thank GOD! Thank you, government for protecting me from information you deem dangerous. I CANNOT at fucking ALL see how this could cascade into other forms of informational censorship.
Fuck off with this bs(not the person to whom I'm responding, just a general feeling towards whoever had the bright idea of "protecting us" via censorship rather than education).
Edit: It is possible that they meant "halt the spread" in a figurative way, like, combat it via education, in which case all this vitriol is for naught xD.
OP missed a word. The European Comission has started an action plan to halt the dangerous spread of incorrect information.
It plans to do that by creating a website and better educating healthcare workers in how to communicate with the public.
That sounds awesome.
Some people believe what they want to believe and are not open to education. I believe censorship of any fake news of that kind will prevent at least some people to think vaccines are bad.
I mean, some smartasses still believe the world is flat because someone told them in a "convincing" way.
That said, the vast majority knows that vaccines are needed to control diseases, but many don't know how they work, and education can help preventing people from falling for that anti-vaccine crap.
I agree with all that, but, once you set a precedent of "this group of people gets to decide which information is dangerous, and should be blocked", you're looking into some seriously scary shit.
I am realllly uncomfortable with this type of idea.
so you are not comfy with blocking faulty info ? facts are objective blue is blue not orange or red just blue that is a fact if you say otherwise it isnt an opinion and should be blocked. that is objective. blue is beautiful or blue is ugly is subjective. iets pretty easy. yes these things should be blocked. it are lies and misinformatian and it is pretty easy to fact check such things.
If you look at it that way, I do understand. It's just hard nowadays to see what is truth and what isn't. So many self proclaimed experts run rampant on the internet and even then, most people tend to look only at the titles, neglecting the article itself, and already jump to conclusions.
There should be some kind of quality label that can seperate facts from theory.
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