When my mom had cancer, I swear every relative and distant acquaintance came out of the woodwork trying to sell some kind of nonsense. It was already a devastating time, but on top of that it was insulting being forced to hear about all these delusional snake oil cures and conspiracy theories.
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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.
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And it's only taken them... since 2005.
My mom was drinking diluted hydrogen peroxide daily for a while because some quack on YouTube claimed it prevents/cures cancer.
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And some idiots will believe only more in it because it's "forbidden knowledge" 🙈
Not that the deletion is wrong though ...
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Only took them till now. Im surprised they even have people to do that job.
But news about "alternative facts" are a-ok
Good move by Youtube here.
Better late than never!
Awww man! Now where am I going to learn about back alley Italian doctors who've just learned about baking soda?
'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).
since there is no cure for cancer, all of them then?
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