A few points on the new campaign to deplatform @joerogan. The deplatformers show contempt for his audience. They posit that people who listen to his podcast will conclude that vaccines are dangerous because they are too ignorant to evaluate dissenting experts.
The public health professionals who wrote the initial letter did not seek to debate Rogan's guests. They want spotify to censor those guests. Why not engage Malone? He's not a crank. He is a pioneer in MRNA research. Demonstrate why he's wrong instead of censoring him.
Also, there is no recognition from public health professionals and journalists demanding Rogan's deplatforming, that they insisted the lab leak theory was itself misinformation, when even Fauci's own advisers believed this was a plausible explanation for the outbreak in 2020.
This was an example of how a campaign against "misinformation" was itself a form of misinformation. It's been a pattern. For a year and a half, people who thought schools shouldn't be closed were accused of seeking mass death. Then we learn studies showed closures didn't work.
This is why none of this is really about misinformaion. It's about power. And it's about short circuiting free discourse by demanding an unearned consent from citizens who have seen an expert class say all kinds of things that later turned out to be false.
None of this is to say that vaccines are unsafe or dangerous. They are not. But for those that disagree, don't treat them like children. Engage the heretics. One way we know something is true is because it can withstand counter arguments. Censoring dissent persuades no one
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