Oh hey, YouTube has a mechanism for that! Simply down-vote the video, and any future viewers will know that the video is likely ineffective because of the visible down-vote count that Google didn’t remove to make more money from advertisements. They didn’t remove it because they value the health of people suffering from cancer more than money. Good on them.
While that would be great, in reality because of YouTube’s recommendations, the ones most likely to watch this crap are the ones already drinking the kool-aid and thus upvoting.
How time passes. This was not the case when down-votes were there. It used to be easy to identify when videos were full of shit, even with lots of views.
This might help others. It’s crowd-sourced and uses averages, but for what it “feels” like, it seems pretty accurate:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/return-youtube-dislikes/
People who believe in dumb idiot BS treatments tend to watch and like those kinds of videos too. Downvoting those videos might not be very effective because of the number of true believers watching them.
Don’t forget the rewind.
You mean this one? With 3.8M up-votes?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbJOTdZBX1g
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since there is no cure for cancer, all of them then?
Only took them till now. Im surprised they even have people to do that job.
And it’s only taken them… since 2005.
But news about “alternative facts” are a-ok
Better late than never!
‘harmful or ineffective’
the word "Placebo:
I hope they ban any content of Farrah Bunch that are related (includes any other people that promote her product).
So they are finally taking down the bleach drinking guy?
One would think he would eventually cancel himself.
The former president? No wait he wanted to inject bleach. Or sunlight or something I dunno.
Nah, everyone gets that second part wrong. He didn’t want you to inject sunlight, he wanted you to breathe it. Somehow. Like, I dunno, inhale a string of UV lights and give your lungs a tan or something.
Someone at my workplce theorized it was nebulized tanning spray. Because UV… tans… so the the spray has UV…? That guy listened to a LOT of talk radio on his commute in from the sticks.
Awww man! Now where am I going to learn about back alley Italian doctors who’ve just learned about baking soda?
Good move by Youtube here.
My mom was drinking diluted hydrogen peroxide daily for a while because some quack on YouTube claimed it prevents/cures cancer.
You should have her see a doctor. That stuff is not for drinking. Hell, the labels specifically tell you that.
It’s probably too risky at this point. She could start foaming at the mouth any minute now and get an incorrect diagnosis of rabies.
If you tell her to wait a few years before drinking, the concentration will naturally go down as time passes. The longer you let this chemical sit in room temperature, the more oxygen and water you’ll have.
