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YouTube starts mass takedowns of videos promoting “harmful or ineffective” cancer cures (www.theverge.com)
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It’s attempting to streamline its health moderation policies.

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[–] 520@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How are we defining magical thinking here? Are we talking about anything illogical or specifically the unironic my-Hogwarts-letter-got-lost-in-the-post types?

I'll definitely give that book a read, thanks for the recommendation.

[–] Haus@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Magical thinking, or superstitious thinking,[1] is the belief that unrelated events are causally connected despite the absence of any plausible causal link between them, particularly as a result of supernatural effects.

[–] 520@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

So, wait, you think literally any superstitious thinking is harmful? That literally is something most people do to one extent or another.