Are food companies misleading the public? Duh.
Any large entity trying to make a power or profit play these days is misleading someone. Because, apparently, it works.
Move over misinformation, and make room for misleading, misstatements, misspeaking, and other ploys that are just plain wrong, bad, and erroneous.
Yes, that is what it takes to push their crap, whether it is a corrupt company selling stuff, or goofy governments pushing their reality rejecting narratives.
Wherever you look, it's a fake fantastical farce.
"Without truth there can be no science and no scholarship."- Paul Craig Roberts
Essentially, besides all the soft wording used to describe these practices, they are plain and simple lying to us.
How to fight back?
Practice lifelong learning.
Be suspicious.
Exercise a healthy doubt regarding everything you see and hear.
Most importantly, definitely do your own research (we used to call that 'reading'), and
think for yourself.
It gets tiring after a while, particularly as the science and facts are often ignored.
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Alex
So tiring. It is a fight that will never end, but is one worth fighting. If they succeed in killing science and facts it will be the end of us, and a new Dark Age will result.
DeleteA new book discuses what we are up against.
"The Death of Science: The Retreat from Reason in the Post-Modern World"
Paul R Goddard
Karol Sikora (Foreword)
Nabil Jarad
Chandra Wickramasinghe
David Nutt
Jeremy and Mark Goddard
Rosamond Jones
Clare Craig
Sir Richard Dearlove (Preface)
Angus G Dalgleish (Editor)
I have watched Dr. John Campbell interview Angus Dalgleish, and they are both awesome, much-needed voices in this area.
Take care
- Gregg
Postmodernism is an interesting one, on the surface it offers criticism of grand social truths but has too much reliance on language and fluidity. For me it ignores material reality and I prefer critical realism which has a unknown core of reality and outer atmosphere of fluid meaning whereas postmodernism is anti foundational.
DeleteI need to study the difference between postmodernism and critical realism. So much to learn, so little time.
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I had to start early with my children and feared I had made them cynical. When they saw a commercial for a cereal with a junky toy, I explained that it was not as large as they thought, and, No, that car would not run. It had no motor of any kind. Soon, they would tell me why the commercial was a lie. I feared I had taken something from my babies. I decided I had given them exercises in critical thinking.
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The best possible thing you could have given them in preparation for life, Linda, as far as I am concerned.
Delete- Gregg
Linda, I’ll bet your children are well-adjusted and really good adults. I’m grateful to have grown up without computers and social media. The marketing pressure via TV was strong in the ‘80s and ‘90s. But I can’t imagine what today’s children are up against. We need more parents like you. Take care, Erin
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