do rebuttals sometimes become part of problem?

Posted by Willful on May 31, 2013, at 8:27:52

I was thinking that sometimes in our desire to push away viewpoints that are not well properly documented, and which containing exaggerations or incorrect assertions, we might be inadvertently magnifying the false messages.
And also we may be collaborating in hijacking a thread that someone, especially someone new, starts with a clear medical question that needs to be addressed in its entirely-- and given more consideration-- but this consideration is precluded by our all being drawn into taking exception from the one wrong view.
I notice this happening recently-- that a complex questions or set of concerns by a poster begins to be discussed-- and this back-and-forth of the old adversaries starts up and we all throw ourselves into the task of refuting the false statements which sometimes are made.

I find such a dilemma here that we can either completely disrupt a person's getting help in order to defeat something, only to negate the real discussion-- or to become a springboard ourselves for the repetition of false information.
Yet if we don't, the false information is often repeated more and more anyway.
Still, maybe we keep taking our eyes off on what's important and even become part of the problem rather than part of the solution.

Possibly the problem is that if you don't have firsthand knowledge of the medical issue-- but do know that there's something wrong with one of the answers-- that you don't have much to contribute other than to jump in with your rebuttal. So you become part of the wrangle.
I don't have any solutions here. But I do wonder if we aren't overly concerned with the false information, which can quickly be flagged by one or two people as wrong, without its becoming the main focus of a thread that should be about the original query.
I know this has been pointed out-- and yet we haven't really taken it in-- and let it guide our actions yet.

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do rebuttals sometimes become part of problem? Willful 5/31/13
Re: do rebuttals sometimes become part of problem? » Willful Phillipa 5/31/13
Re: do rebuttals sometimes become part of problem? » Willful SLS 6/1/13
Re: do rebuttals sometimes become part of problem? » SLS ed_uk2010 6/1/13
Re: do rebuttals sometimes become part of problem? Dinah 6/2/13
Re: do rebuttals sometimes become part of problem? » Dinah ed_uk2010 6/2/13
Re: do rebuttals sometimes become part of problem? SLS 6/2/13
Re: do rebuttals sometimes become part of problem? Willful 6/3/13
Re: do rebuttals sometimes become part of problem? » Willful SLS 6/3/13
Re: do rebuttals sometimes become part of problem? Dr. Bob 6/4/13

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