I agree that everyone can learn with these discussions, but if it’s pervasive misinformation, then it should be dealt with. The safety and well-being of a community also depends on the quality of discussions as well. Do not necessarily ban them, but the information should either be corrected for future reference, or should be prevented to spread.

The only thing they said there is that moderation is hard as fuck, and knowing what information is fake or not is even harder, even more when you realize that you could spread misinformation in a plethora of branches of science, having a rule to say that is stupid since you’d need a specialist in every field to confirm what is and what is not true.

Nero is fiddling while Rome burns.

There have been so many anti-vax and election denialism posts and users, and shit that are just allowed to keep existing because “We can’t disprove it”, yeah no shit: you can’t disprove anything. The burden is on the person making the claim, not the person refuting it.