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RE: Dismantling Powerful Propaganda
Great post, there’s too many people that don’t analyze past the few seconds of airtime these things get and that’s what they rely on. If people do, the media (including google because they are now media as well, honestly) hides any truth behind the first page of search results. I however am optimistic that the tide is turning against them; more people are searching harder for things, don’t take their word on topics especially if they’re pushing it really hard.
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Thank you for your kind words @cmplxty, I very much agree with your thoughts on the matter. To think critically, one has to exercise that skill as though they would any other muscle in the body; information can be spun in a myriad of different ways implying this or that, and if we're not careful they'll do us like Dr. Dre and keep our heads ringin' (with some vaccine-induced tinnitus). Regardless of the doctor responsible, iatrogenesis is the mother of all funks, and those anti-anti-vaxxers; unfortunately, they won't know until it hits'em smack dab in the dome. Cost-benefit analyses really need to be performed before people entrust their lives to those in the white coats. Many times taking your chances with mother nature is what'll give you the better odds. Yet, that kind of talk would be considered "highly blasphemous" to the medical community writ large.
I find the latest measles scare to be ridiculous; measles used to be as common as chicken pox and only 400/1,000,000 would die from it. The push for it is sad. I do understand that there may be brain damage associated with it but with modern clean water, organic foods and access to information at the tip of our fingers these need not scare anyone except those of weak minds. Then again, it’s all about the money, not patients/people, so the propaganda comes out fierce.
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Exactly!