Don't see how it will help, I've met some nurses and consultants with "interesting" beliefs.
this post was submitted on 08 Sep 2023
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Vishaal Virani, who leads health content for YouTube, said it was important simply due to the sheer number of people accessing healthcare information on the video-sharing platform.
"Being able to create content like this makes it really accessible for the audience, and helps in terms of reducing the health anxiety that people might sometimes have, because they're able to have some information that's digestible in easy, understandable language."
As a practicing doctor in the UK, who has been validated on YouTube as part of the programme, she said the system allowed people to make judgements on the trustworthiness of health videos.
And research published in the BMJ in 2022 found that 11% of YouTube's most viewed videos about the vaccine contradicted the World Health Organisation or the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
And Alastair Henderson, former chief executive of the AoMRC, explained things could be even worse than that if validated users deliberately provide misinformation.
"I would certainly hope that others will follow and I would assume if it's clear that this is successful and popular and the YouTube platform is recognised as high quality and impactful, others might want to do that too... but we are not in a position to force them."
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COVID conspiracy TikTok is like half nurses.
Sounds good on paper, but with half my family believing that covid is caused by 5G, I can tell you, all this will do is make them see anyone verified as "brainwashed sheep" and they'll continue to get their advice from charlatans.
What about for you? I would love a helpful verified label when watching some of these youtube videos, save me some sherlocking.
In UK NHS webpages are very good. And outside of UK, I guess adding NHS to the search query would bring NHS pages as top results. For health related information I don't think people should consult youtube anyway.
I don't really get health advice from YouTube, but yeah, it would be useful for those who do. It just won't be any help for those who actually want to be misinformed, sadly.
My parents believe stupid shit once in a while, thankfully they arent stubborn about it. All the best of luck with yours.