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That's why you need to work out your knowledge by avoiding both the mainstream news and the crazy freelancers. Good luck with it but, when it comes to cancer, I suggest a reputable oncologist.
I consider the mainstream news to be fully controlled by about 6 corporations who's owners also have holdings in most other large corporate concerns. Their messages on important subjects are crafted and coordinated to leave the public with a specific message.
I consider the alternate media (aka, 'crazy freelancers') to be even less reliable. The difference is that there are nuggets of pure truth contained within. It's simply labor intensive to pick these out, but the pay-off is that one can formulate a more accurate understanding of reality.
The metric I use in understanding the world is when a hypothesis explains many observations without a lot of strain. When I don't prejudiced my hypothesis selection by writing off 'crime-think' ideas, certain of these mesh nicely with observations.
I am constantly reminded of Jacobi's advice "Invert, always invert." When certain things are inverted to what is widely considered a ridiculous state, it is common for a lot of observations to fall into place. An example of this would be the childhood immunization schedule. It is widely understood that the purpose of this is to create a healthy population. The inversion would be that the purpose is to create a profitable population, and a population who had certain health problems fits the model.
An unhealthy population is not only profitable from the perspective of the pharma industry, but is also much more dependent on support making them a controllable population as well.
The Pavlovian response to such an outrageous suggestion is that it is so evil as to be absurd. Based on a read of history up to and including recent times, I don't personally feel that the idea is especially outrageous or even out-of-character.
If people are considered to be a threat insofar as they create overpopulation problems, then it is easy to invert the idea that 'the powers that be' want healthy and strong people to one where they are not entirely disappointed if policies result in fewer people. The suggestion also serves to enlist the support and participation of people who are focus on, for instance, the natural environment (aka 'eco-fundamentalists'.) They can disseminate certain ideas through their information channels, and can feed support back up these channels.
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