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If Facebook is going to do this, they need to identify who these "scientists" are -- or at least what their credentials are -- so we can decide whether their opinions should outweigh those of a surgeon/professor who holds chairs at Johns Hopkins and the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Makary isn't some internet rando with a theory that COVID-19 is caused by gamma rays from Jupiter or whatever. His opinions are open to dispute, certainly, but they deserve more respect than just being put down the memory hole on the word of anonymous "scientists" (botanists? archaelogists? astrophysicists? We don't know!).

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