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RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 1 year agoYoutube has recently started certifying people. You’ll find real doctors now have “Licensed Doctor in the U.S” or something like that.
Sure the loons will still say their self-made expert is right, but it’s a step in the right direction for those who are still on the fence.
jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
That still doesn’t mean shit, just because someone has a piece of paper saying they passed some exams doesn’t mean they haven’t gone off the deep end - case in point, Jordan Peterson is or was a licensed psychologist in Canada.
RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And what does a “maybe or maybe not” license psychologist have to do with climate-change science?
Is climate some new deep field of psychology?
jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
His claims regarding psychology and psychiatrists are also dubious at best. There are plenty of medical doctors in the US that are COVID deniers, for example. There are a few biologists that deny evolution and are creationists. Helping them pull an appeal to authority, instead of having proper moderation, is not going to make things better.
RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Show me these license doctors that are still practicing that are covid/vaccine deniers?
What you’ll find is a moderate stance on the business practices or implementation of covid measures. In the U.S you will lose your license for practicing alternative-medicine. Dr.Oz for example, gets to keep practicing because it’s free speech, he is not giving care or selling his own products. Nothing can keep him from saying a pill is a magic cure for weight loss. If he were to prescribe these to people, or even deny real medicine/science, he would be in trouble. It’s hard to make these cases like Oz because he knows exactly how to skirt the law, and even before congress had to admit these are just beliefs.
If OZ were to go on youtube and deny covid outright, he would likely be in big trouble.