[gruglife]

> calling Karol Sikora a "professor of medicine" hides the fact that he's an oncologist; if he ever had any expertise it was in cancer, not epidemics, and he has no business speaking outside his field.

Then why is Bill Gates the de facto lead on curing covid?

[mdoms]

Bill Gates has spent decades on the front lines of various wars against infectious diseases. He may not have a university degree on the subject but he is as much an expert as anyone who does - not to mention, he mostly defers to the expertise of his many qualified colleagues when speaking publicly.

[kerkeslager]

In a "determining what's true about Covid" sense, he isn't the leader on Covid. He pays experts to take that leadership.

It's my general impression that if Gates says something about Covid, he's just repeating what experts said.

[ksk]

Your own comment says "if he ever had any expertise it was in cancer, not epidemics, and he has no business speaking outside his field."

Why doesn't that disqualify Bill Gates according to your own reasoning?

>It's my general impression that if Gates says something about Covid, he's just repeating what experts said.

And who determines if he is or isn't repeating experts? Also, who decides who is or isn't an expert? An advertising company? Sorry, but that is a scary path.

[kerkeslager]

> Your own comment says "if he ever had any expertise it was in cancer, not epidemics, and he has no business speaking outside his field."

> Why doesn't that disqualify Bill Gates according to your own reasoning?

Because there's a big difference between presenting yourself as an expert and saying things that disagree with experts, and repeating what experts say.

If Bill Gates starts spouting off stuff without evidence that disagrees with what all the experts are saying, he'll absolutely be disqualified according to my reasoning.

> And who determines if he is or isn't repeating experts? Also, who decides who is or isn't an expert? An advertising company? Sorry, but that is a scary path.

Well, everyone has to determine that for themselves, based on what limited ability they have.

It seems like you think I'm one of the pro-censorship people here, but I assure you I'm not, please follow the comment chain up to where I started it and read my comment there. On the contrary, I believe Sikora's video should have been left on YouTube, and responded to by experts.

[filoleg]

I disagree with your reasoning for the entire first half of your post regarding BillG, but I can absolutely agree with you on the last part.

The power to decide who is or isn't an expert, as well as the ability to restrict speech based on those decisions, is a pretty dangerous and scary path that I am vehemently opposed to taking.

[squarefoot]

Because actually he doesn't cure anything: he has money and that's what he gives.