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This is very scary that they have the power, in today’s world, to silence discussion of medical treatments. These massive globalist technology companies are restricting open discussion, even among scientists and doctors. The same global companies are trying to do business with the likes of the Chinese and the Russians and other despots.


“The Hoover Institution at Stanford University is one of the most prominent think tanks in America, and its fellows are some the most accomplished in their respective fields. But that doesn’t matter to Big Tech. YouTube recently removed a June 23 interview its senior fellow Dr. Scott Atlas did with Hoover because it goes against the World Health Organization’s position on the Wuhan coronavirus.

According to Avik Roy, president of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, the decision was made because the video “contradicts the World Health Organization or local health authorities’ medical information about COVID-19.”

“As Mollie Hemmingway pointed out, the decision to remove this is “utterly terrifying” because the WHO has a track record of being wrong “with alarming frequency.” But beyond that, in America, there must be the ability to hear other perspectives.

Big Tech is utterly terrifying right now. The World Health Organization is not our master and they are dangerously wrong with alarming frequency. Even if that weren’t true, free people must be free to counter them. https://t.co/C1JaG8CROX

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) September 13, 2020


Will @YouTube disclose the name of the person (or the person programming the algorithm) responsible? Is he/she/it more knowledgable, or less, about #COVID19 than @SWAtlasHoover? What specifically about Atlas' remarks did @YouTubefind so dangerous for the public to consume?

— Avik Roy (@Avik) September 13, 2020

We must stop letting technology companies control our freedom of information and discussion.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahb...er-institution-for-contradicting-who-n2576147
 
I agree 100%. I don't use FB anymore because of their willingness to sensor so much. I don't miss it. No one in Big Tech is anyone's judge and are certainly in no place to be the morality police. It's almost like Big Tech is the state-run media of the Democratic Party.

They (and MSM) are making money off this whole COVID debacle, because people are holed up in their houses and scared to death. They stay glued to the TV. Ad revenues in social media and MSM have to be through the roof. God forbid someone should come out with some useful and helpful medical information that would cause people to go back to work and stop watching TV/scrolling FB and Twitter all the time - disrupting all the ad revenue!

This guy hits the nail on the head:
 
I’m in healthcare technology. Ya’ll don’t know the half of it.

You did turn off location tracking and contact tracing on your smartphones right?
 
The interesting thing is he is just the face of the rest of the task force. As he plainly stated, he is not an epidemiologist, though he does have quite the impressive resume on healthcare policy. Frankly, I don’t listen to any of them. I get my info by reading the studies being published without the media spin on them. Though I think he’s right about a lot of what he is being told to say, I have a VERY low opinion of anyone with radiologist in their title. They are overpaid x-Ray techs and a good majority of the time their assessments are grossly incorrect in my experience. That’s largely due to the fact that they never see the real bone and tissue after they leave medical school. They don’t perform surgery, they don’t see patients, they just look at pictures.
 
Cap'n Scuba Steve said:
The interesting thing is he is just the face of the rest of the task force. As he plainly stated, he is not an epidemiologist, though he does have quite the impressive resume on healthcare policy. Frankly, I don’t listen to any of them. I get my info by reading the studies being published without the media spin on them. Though I think he’s right about a lot of what he is being told to say, I have a VERY low opinion of anyone with radiologist in their title. They are overpaid x-Ray techs and a good majority of the time their assessments are grossly incorrect in my experience. That’s largely due to the fact that they never see the real bone and tissue after they leave medical school. They don’t perform surgery, they don’t see patients, they just look at pictures.
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Im not going to try and change your religion.
How do you think all the cancer, neurological, cardiology MR’s, OB/GYN, abdominal, vascular, and a slew of other systems images are diagnosed?
In majority of cases by a Radiologist.
Not all cops are bad. Not all Radiologists are bad either.
Generalizations like yours are dangerous to your and others health.

Most doctors don’t do surgery and “see bone...”.

I’ve spent a lot of time over my 30 years in healthcare in the reading rooms of hospitals sitting next to Radiologists and Cardiologists.

I can think of only one time I witnessed a major error in diagnosis and it was caught prior to intervention.

How much first hand experience do you have in that environment?

My suggestion is to reconsider your generalization. It may save your life or the life of a loved one in the future.

BTW, most of the studies you’re reading are funded by Big Pharma.
 
El Capitan said:
Im not going to try and change your religion.
How do you think all the cancer, neurological, cardiology MR’s, OB/GYN, abdominal, vascular, and a slew of other systems images are diagnosed?
In majority of cases by a Radiologist.
Not all cops are bad. Not all Radiologists are bad either.
Generalizations like yours are dangerous to your and others health.

Most doctors don’t do surgery and “see bone...”.

I’ve spent a lot of time over my 30 years in healthcare in the reading rooms of hospitals sitting next to Radiologists and Cardiologists.

I can think of only one time I witnessed a major error in diagnosis and it was caught prior to intervention.

How much first hand experience do you have in that environment?

My suggestion is to reconsider your generalization. It may save your life or the life of a loved one in the future.

BTW, most of the studies you’re reading are funded by Big Pharma.
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The actual diagnoses comes from the physician who ordered the study, not the radiologist. They report their findings/observations. I've been in and around healthcare my entire life and my work is tied directly to both industrial and academic research as well as healthcare.

Personally, I've had two instances in the last two years where different radiologists got it WAY wrong.

1. I had been experiencing pain, stiffness, and swelling in my left knee off and on. One Saturday morning I felt it coming on and by Sunday night it was as above but the surrounding skin was red and I was running a 102 F fever. I went to the ER with concerns I had an infection in the joint. Bear in mind that this was not the result of an acute injury. In short, there was no infection and the ER doc ordered an MRI. The radiologist said I had a torn patellar tendon and that was why I was in so much pain, knee was stiff and swollen, and I was running a fever. Saw an orthopedist the next morning. He read the MRI and there was no tear in the patellar tendon. After some further work and testing, turns out I have seronegative rheumatoid arthritis.

2. After some pretty bad low back pain, numbness in my lower calf and numbness and weakness in my left big toe, my doctor ordered an MRI. Radiologist said there was no evidence of a pinched nerve. Mind you, this was after I had a nerve conduction study and electromyograph in which a neurologist indicated that I had a pinched L5 nerve root based on his tests and my symptoms. Went to see a neurosurgeon who read my MRI and showed me where there was obvious narrowing of the subarticular zone and compression of my L5 nerve root caused by a bulging disk probably caused by a lot of the crazy s*&$ I did when I was in the Navy.

When you couple this with the numerous other stories I have been told over the years, you can likely see why I am not impressed. Sure, there are obvious instances where they hit the nail on the head. Yes, those imaging studies are useful in diagnosing a great number of things - I just value the opinion of the physicians who see actual patients above the person who is capturing the images. And doctors/surgeons that don't see bone? There are plenty - such as orthopedists and neurosurgeons who specialize in the spine to scratch the surface.

Lastly, I highly doubt big pharma is pumping money into research that indicates that you don't need therapeutics to combat COVID-19, and that mortality and severe symptoms are associated with Vitamin D deficiencies. Because you don't need a drug to get Vitamin D - you just need to be in the sun! It's free! Or you can take a supplement, also which aren't produced by big pharma.
 
Cap'n Scuba Steve said:
The actual diagnoses comes from the physician who ordered the study, not the radiologist. They report their findings/observations. I've been in and around healthcare my entire life and my work is tied directly to both industrial and academic research as well as healthcare.

Personally, I've had two instances in the last two years where different radiologists got it WAY wrong.

1. I had been experiencing pain, stiffness, and swelling in my left knee off and on. One Saturday morning I felt it coming on and by Sunday night it was as above but the surrounding skin was red and I was running a 102 F fever. I went to the ER with concerns I had an infection in the joint. Bear in mind that this was not the result of an acute injury. In short, there was no infection and the ER doc ordered an MRI. The radiologist said I had a torn patellar tendon and that was why I was in so much pain, knee was stiff and swollen, and I was running a fever. Saw an orthopedist the next morning. He read the MRI and there was no tear in the patellar tendon. After some further work and testing, turns out I have seronegative rheumatoid arthritis.

2. After some pretty bad low back pain, numbness in my lower calf and numbness and weakness in my left big toe, my doctor ordered an MRI. Radiologist said there was no evidence of a pinched nerve. Mind you, this was after I had a nerve conduction study and electromyograph in which a neurologist indicated that I had a pinched L5 nerve root based on his tests and my symptoms. Went to see a neurosurgeon who read my MRI and showed me where there was obvious narrowing of the subarticular zone and compression of my L5 nerve root caused by a bulging disk probably caused by a lot of the crazy s*&$ I did when I was in the Navy.

When you couple this with the numerous other stories I have been told over the years, you can likely see why I am not impressed. Sure, there are obvious instances where they hit the nail on the head. Yes, those imaging studies are useful in diagnosing a great number of things - I just value the opinion of the physicians who see actual patients above the person who is capturing the images. And doctors/surgeons that don't see bone? There are plenty - such as orthopedists and neurosurgeons who specialize in the spine to scratch the surface.

Lastly, I highly doubt big pharma is pumping money into research that indicates that you don't need therapeutics to combat COVID-19, and that mortality and severe symptoms are associated with Vitamin D deficiencies. Because you don't need a drug to get Vitamin D - you just need to be in the sun! It's free! Or you can take a supplement, also which aren't produced by big pharma.
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Sorry to hear about your personal medical experiences. But it still doesn’t support your generalizations.

Radiologists read images and make diagnoses based on their subjective interpretation. Are they sometimes wrong? Sure. Are doctors wrong sometimes? Absolutely.

Big Pharma absolutely funds not only the write ups and case studies. They also fund the clinical trials that those articles reference.

I’ve also noticed variances in quality of care in different regions of the country which is disappointing.

I personally hold three clinical cardiology credentials and have worked side by side w great doctors...and a-holes unfortunately.

Good health to you and hope you find a great doctor near you.

My wife is flying from Orlando to Chicago to see her doctor end of month.

I’m flying to see mine in October.
 
Thanks for the well wishes El Cap, I appreciate it! All is well and being managed accordingly, so I’m all good for now! It was just difficult to get answers at first due to bad info.

I wasn’t generalizing as much as providing my opinion based off my experiences and those of people I have talked to and a number of doctors that I know well. The story is mostly the same unfortunately and I’ve lived all over the Country, including multiple places on both coasts and some places in between. I specifically said “my opinion”, I didn’t say all radiologists were terrible.

On the research topic, big pharma funds don’t get injected in scientific research. Nearly all of that funding comes from the NIH and the NSF. NIH funds go to medical research and NSF funds go to all other scientific research. Big Pharma was actually pissed at President Trump when he talked about cutting funding to the NIH and NSF, because they were getting free drug research. That is where the connection is, and they didn’t want to have to spend capital on something they are accustomed to getting for free. You know, because of big bonuses and all. Trump doesn’t like Big Pharma and neither do I. I’m as capitalist as they come, but I believe there should be reasonable limits so people generally are not in positions where they can’t afford the medicines they need. I’d feel the same way if farming turned into the big chit show that is Big Pharma.

EDIT: I do concur that Big Pharma funds get injected into clinical trials, no question about that. Heck, they pay people to participate!
 
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MonacoMike said:
This is very scary that they have the power, in today’s world, to silence discussion of medical treatments. These massive globalist technology companies are restricting open discussion, even among scientists and doctors. The same global companies are trying to do business with the likes of the Chinese and the Russians and other despots.


“The Hoover Institution at Stanford University is one of the most prominent think tanks in America, and its fellows are some the most accomplished in their respective fields. But that doesn’t matter to Big Tech. YouTube recently removed a June 23 interview its senior fellow Dr. Scott Atlas did with Hoover because it goes against the World Health Organization’s position on the Wuhan coronavirus.

According to Avik Roy, president of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, the decision was made because the video “contradicts the World Health Organization or local health authorities’ medical information about COVID-19.”

“As Mollie Hemmingway pointed out, the decision to remove this is “utterly terrifying” because the WHO has a track record of being wrong “with alarming frequency.” But beyond that, in America, there must be the ability to hear other perspectives.

Big Tech is utterly terrifying right now. The World Health Organization is not our master and they are dangerously wrong with alarming frequency. Even if that weren’t true, free people must be free to counter them. https://t.co/C1JaG8CROX

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) September 13, 2020


Will @YouTube disclose the name of the person (or the person programming the algorithm) responsible? Is he/she/it more knowledgable, or less, about #COVID19 than @SWAtlasHoover? What specifically about Atlas' remarks did @YouTubefind so dangerous for the public to consume?

— Avik Roy (@Avik) September 13, 2020

We must stop letting technology companies control our freedom of information and discussion.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahb...er-institution-for-contradicting-who-n2576147
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Too funny - I googled your quote about Hoover to find the source and the first hit was from that quote on Facebook. How ironic.
 
Today in healthcare IT, its all about AI, machine learning, smart devices, mobile apps.

5G is the communication infrastructure to connect everything including your refrigerator, car, everything will be “smart”, mobile, and connected in real-time.

It is inevitable that all privacy will be lost.
 
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