the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, once again we ask ,who is Doctor Youtube ? Stanford Medical School professor Jay Bhattacharya participated in the roundtable discussion with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis that was banned by Youtube for the “misinformation” of saying the best evidence is that children should not be masked in school.
Bhattacharya pointed out in the WSJ:
The company said it removed the video “because it included content that contradicts the consensus of local and global health authorities regarding the efficacy of masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19.”
Yet the panelists are all experts, and all spoke against requiring children to wear masks. I can’t speak for my counterparts, but my reasoning was a cost-benefit analysis. The benefits of masking children are small to none; the costs are much higher.
YouTube’s action violates basic standards of scientific conduct. The company labeled our discussion on masking children as “misinformation” without providing any detail about its scientific reasoning. If YouTube wants to argue that we were wrong, it has an obligation to show its evidence.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/masks-for-children-muzzles-for-covid-19-news-11618329981
YouTube (aka Google) motto:
Do
noEvil