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Ari Reddy's avatar

The situation is infuriating, some previously serious academics have built social media followings catering to the fearful and anxious and are now loathe to give that up, even if they are psychologically damaging their followers by reinforcing their false beliefs that fuel their anxiety. Personally I think it violates “do no harm.”

As you said, they should know better, behave better, and if they truly believe the unrealistically high risk they are promoting they are also suffering from an anxiety disorder as well as unintentionally reinforcing other people’s problem too.

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Daniel Bruetman MD, MMM's avatar

I’m a physician who is currently enrolled in a Master of Liberal Arts program. Our class on totalitarianism exposed me to the idea that societal silencing and canceling is as dangerous and toxic, maybe worse than state sponsored censorship. State authority can physically eliminate a person, society can crush a person’s soul.

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