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by mc32 1990 days ago
Wait...

A few months ago people laughed at the suggestion. It was "dangerous" to "deceive" people about Vit D and Covid.

Wasn't Twitter suppressing this too? How do they punish themselves for misinformation?

Now it comes out. I wonder how many other things will come to light.
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kpfleger 1990 days ago
This has been a big problem. Some people labeled science on vitamin D & covid19 as misinformation, lumping vitamin D in with things that have little to no evidence even when the vitamin D evidence was mounting rapidly. Part of the point of this open letter is to show that many serious people agree that vitamin D should be used in the pandemic. The inappropriate suppression of this message is now the mis-information. This should be clear from reading the letter and its very few references carefully.

See also the op-ed just posted to MedPage Today, and posted separately here on HackerNews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25680373

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teorema 1990 days ago
The problem IMHO is the attempt to regulate speech on the topic (or any topic really). It just illustrates the problems with it.

I'm a little concerned about the appeal to authority element to this all...

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WalterGR 1990 days ago
> A few months ago people laughed at the suggestion. It was "dangerous" to "deceive" people about Vit D and Covid.

Who? Doctors or people on the internet?

> Wasn't Twitter suppressing this too?

I don't know. Were they? By "too" do you mean the unidentified people above?

> How do they punish themselves for misinformation?

How do they punish themselves for insinuations of possibly suppressing something?

> Now it comes out. I wonder how many other things will come to light.

Such as what?

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funcDropShadow 1990 days ago
> > A few months ago people laughed at the suggestion. It was "dangerous" to "deceive" people about Vit D and Covid.

> Who? Doctors or people on the internet?

Last automn, I asked a medical doctor about Vitamin D and CoVid19 and he told me that he gets a lot of emails about news in medicine, and that he deletes everything that mentions Vitamin D, because some claims about Vitamin D were refuted in the '90s. I was suprised to say the least.

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