Apologies up front for the wall of text I'm about to build because this is one of my favorite subjects here on GAW. I'm fascinated by the commitment, or lack thereof in some cases, to sticking to the stated purpose and goal of research and dissemination of TRUTH and of course the commitment to 1st amendment etc.

If dissemination of evidence supported research and it's findings were the full purpose of the board, then why is there no searchable database of subjects and evidence. Perhaps divided into 2 or 3 levels of surety. But that's not happening. No, this is something else. What's alienating is coming here for information, and finding the same sort of gatekeeping that they had for the vaccines. If you had questions then you were a problem. Didn't matter in what spirit the question was being asked, it was treated as an agenda you were pushing. They'd call you an antivaxxer. Even when it wasn't true. Only from the perspective of people with a very specific agenda of getting sheeple on board did genuine questions become threatening to the point of needing to silence them. First thing is label them. Shills. Antivaxxer. Whatever the word chosen to mean "not us" is. We know this is only necessary when someone fancies themselves a protector, or a nanny state, or just someone that knows better than us and is doing the gatekeeping for our own greater good. Not to mention, like a couple other posts already have, that often the moderator(s) (not going to name, but definitely not all) do not try at all to hide the joy and gratification of being the one to do the firing. "Killing"? Cmon