• What IS It With Online Health Scare Stories ?

    From 24D.234@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 29 00:32:13 2023
    XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.politics.usa

    You see it everywhere ... one tiny mole or even zit = DEATH
    BY MELANOMA for SURE ! Sore titty = STAGE 4 BREAST CANCER.
    Angst because the kiddies are vaping nicotine - but ignoring
    all the crack/meth/fentanyl/paint-thinner or worse. Headache ?
    BRAIN TUMOR !!! Upset stomach ? PICK ONE OF A DOZEN HORRIBLE
    CANCERS or INCURABLE SYNDROMES. Yer kid gets weird around
    age 12 ? PSYCHOSIS ! Better start the Heavy Drugs or electro-
    shock - or better yet neo-LOBOTOMIES ! Musk's brain-chips
    just got FDA approved .....

    There's a whole 'news' industry around health paranoia/disinfo
    and statistical distortion. Often they're NOT selling anything,
    but FEAR. Paranoia itself SELLS BIG.

    It also COSTS ... people frightened by such stories waste
    VAST amounts of personal/govt healthcare money and the stress
    itself causes its own spectrum of nasty afflictions. Indeed
    health disinfo may be the most COSTLY disinfo but the State
    is only interested in 'disinfo' that affects the current
    political parties.

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