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On the contrary, at least in the US I don't worry about the government censoring scientific journal articles about covid that make them look bad. Maybe I am wrong about this.

Forreal. In the US, public health officials are getting death threats.

Indeed, the editorial gives examples from the US:

"Suppression of science and scientists is not new or a peculiarly British phenomenon. In the US, President Trump’s government manipulated the Food and Drug Administration to hastily approve unproved drugs such as hydroxychloroquine and remdesivir."

United States FDA did not approve of neither so this is just a fluff editorial that doesn't fact check some of us call that fake news

The FDA absolutely approved those drugs via emergency authorizations. That's the point: they weren't able to be approved via a normal process so the administration went around the bureaucracy. And in the case of HCQ they did this in contravention of the clear science surrounding the drug.

Do you have a link to "not fake" news explaining how these drugs were somehow not approved?