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With our greater access to knowledge via the media and the internet you'd think we'd be up to our brains in truth. Ironically all of this access has muddied the waters of information more than ever. Rumors, misinformation, and outright lies are continually disseminated throughout all channels available to us to the extent that sometimes it's difficult to know what we should actually believe.
Here are some examples:
Harmful substances: Various studies have shown that coffee can be bad for you while others suggest that it can be good for you. Some recent studies suggest that a couple cups a day can stave off or even prevent Alzheimer's and dementia. Similar conflicting result studies have come out about alcoholic beverages, eggs, and other products. Anyone remember the "studies" back in the fifties that suggested that smoking could be beneficial. There was a time not so long ago when smoking was prevalent in public places. I guess it depends on who's doing the study and what result they want to come up with. In the meantime much of the public is misguided and confused.
Here are some examples:
Harmful substances: Various studies have shown that coffee can be bad for you while others suggest that it can be good for you. Some recent studies suggest that a couple cups a day can stave off or even prevent Alzheimer's and dementia. Similar conflicting result studies have come out about alcoholic beverages, eggs, and other products. Anyone remember the "studies" back in the fifties that suggested that smoking could be beneficial. There was a time not so long ago when smoking was prevalent in public places. I guess it depends on who's doing the study and what result they want to come up with. In the meantime much of the public is misguided and confused.
Global warming: We keep hearing all sorts of research indicating that the Earth is warming and the polar ice caps are melting. There have been suggestions from some camps that our coastal areas will eventually be flooded and adverse weather conditions such as hurricanes will increase endangering us all. Then there are the scientists who believe that we should be more concerned about global cooling. Some even suggest that we may be seeing the coming of another Ice Age. There are also the scientists and pundits who believe that the world climate goes in cycles and we will periodically have times of cooling and heating that are not influenced by anything humankind does.
Overpopulation: The concept that the Earth would be eventually unable to sustain the growing population was introduced by Thomas Robert Malthus in 1798. He advocated population control to keep the order of things in check. Paul Ehrlich revived the Malthus scare tactic in 1968 with his best selling book The Population Bomb. Now here we are nearly 50 years later with none of the predictions coming to pass quite like Ehrlich speculated. Famine and pestilence is not the result of overpopulation. Actually we could move everybody in the world to Texas and with the right infrastructure we could all live quite comfortably while turning the rest of the world into parks and recreation land. Anyone who's driven across Texas can imagine this. Texans would undoubtedly hate it if everyone moved there, but I'm just repeating an example others have given for illustrative purposes.
These are but three areas of debate that politicians, activists, scientists, doomsayers, and others like to banter about. I'm sure you can think of other studies as could I, but this is a blog and I want to keep this post within reasonable limits.
These are but three areas of debate that politicians, activists, scientists, doomsayers, and others like to banter about. I'm sure you can think of other studies as could I, but this is a blog and I want to keep this post within reasonable limits.
My Conclusion:
My own study shows that if you keep looking at all of these studies your brain will turn to mush and gradually seep out of your head. With your brain gone then you would become part of the zombie population in a constant quest for more brains.
Zombies are thrilled by this news as an increase in their population means an ever-growing zombie voter block. Of course it's probable that we already have a majority of zombie voters and we could see an influx of zombies eventually taking office in the United States.
Vampires think that prospect sucks. Vampires think a lot things should suck. Vampires are interested in all things sucky. Nearly all of those running things in government are vampires who have a need to keep the zombie population under their control. The vampires look for issues they can sink their teeth into so they can suck the life-blood out of the rest of us. They love having brain dead constituents who will follow their commands without any thought.
Have a frightful Halloween and may Election Day be a scary one--they usually are.
What is your favorite conspiracy? Do you think we stand a ghost of a chance in the coming election? Are you ready to move to Texas?
Battle of the Bands coming this Saturday November 1st. There are some clues about my BOTB theme in this post. Can you guess the song? This time around I'm offering versions of a 70's hit as performed by two groups that I like and you might enjoy as well. Nothing too controversial in this Battle. It's one of the most accessible I've had so far. Check it out!
