In Chapter 5 of unSpun, Jackson and Jamieson have provided us with several accounts where a lack of “active open mindedness” created victims of trickery that ended in mounting fines, months in jail, declining health and also death. We have to be aware that facts matter and they save lives. Facts matter. Facts save lives. Now all we have to do is make a shirt that says, “Got Facts?”. (Haha!) It's easy for us, in an age of heightened technology, to quickly scan for facts. Consider our surgeon Daniel Bullock who could have clearly been aware of his scammer’s seven accounts of false tax returns if he had typed his name into Google. A bit of conventional awareness would have saved Bullock a ton of trouble, to say the least.
A lack of facts creates the dilemma of misinformation. Such “half truths” have formed road blocks in preventing the amount of females that have fallen victim to heart disease, the number one death cause of females. Due to the popularity of breast cancer prevention and propaganda, also known as “Pinkwashing” many women believe it is the number one cause of death and forgo the chance they may contract heart disease, which is truthfully what they should be watching out for. Misinformation can cause death. Facts save lives.
On the topic if breast cancer, did you know that the number one prevention strategy of preventing all cancers is Sunlight and vitamin D? Ironically, there is a vitamin D deficiency that is spreading rapidly around the U.S. because they are misinformed. Organizations such as the American Cancer Society (ACS) list the four major risk factors on their prevention strategies as: weight, alcohol use, smoking, and exercise. Ironically enough the most powerful anti-cancer nutrient that reduces risk of breast cancer by 77 %, Vitamin D, is not found on the list.
Fact: The lack of facts and swelling amounts of misinformation are everywhere in our world AND the consequences of falling for this deception will not be evoked because we simply “fall for it”. Ex. Daniel Bullock
This chapter caught my attention by prompting us to go to the trouble of finding facts in order to ultimately save ourselves the trouble.
Check out this article by Mike Adams to learn facts about breast cancer propaganda:
October is Breast Cancer Propaganda Month: Pinkwashing, Breast Cancer Action and Vitamin D
http://www.naturalnews.com/022115.html
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I like that you bring up the notion of "conventional awareness." You're right that in this technological age anyone can simply do a brief scan on the internet to find out what's really going on. The facts are out there. However, at the same time, misinformation is also out there on the internet too. Take the constant argument over wikipedia: is it a reliable source or completely unnacceptable?
ReplyDeleteI also like your portions about the breast cancer awareness. I never knew that it was already coined into a term!
When you talked about "half truths," it made me think about when you're talking to someone and as them where they heard that or why they have that belief and they say: "I don't know". I think a lot of times we just hear something and immediately believe it is true without researching it or looking up the facts that support it. For instance, I used to freak out about 2012 and would have an anxiety attack when I thought about it. However, after I researched the claims about how and why the Earth is going to end, I found that there is a lot of information that proves or explains why the Earth won't end in 2012! Google is very useful.
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