Survey Finds Nearly 50% In US Believe In Medical Conspiracy Theories 395
cold fjord writes in with some bad news for the people using water fluoridation to pacify the public and install a new world government. "About half of American adults believe in at least one medical conspiracy theory, according to new survey results. (paywalled, first page viewable) Some conspiracy theories have much more traction than others ... three times as many people believe U.S. regulators prevent people from getting natural cures as believe that a U.S. spy agency infected a large number of African Americans with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). J. Eric Oliver, the study's lead author from University of Chicago, said people may believe in conspiracy theories because they're easier to understand than complex medical information. ... Some 49 percent of the survey participants agreed with at least one of the conspiracies. In fact, in addition to the 37 percent of respondents who fully agreed that U.S. regulators are suppressing access to natural cures, less than a third were willing to say they actively disagreed with the theory. — One of the conspiracy theories, that the U.S. created HIV, was created for an active disinformation campaign by the Soviet Union against the U.S. as a form of political warfare during the Cold War, and still gets repeated."
Jenny McCarthy (Score:5, Funny)
That says it all.
Re:Jenny McCarthy (Score:4, Funny)
Stupidity is on the rise.
Seems there was a Far Side cartoon about imbeciles marching with an upside-down banner or such. It's pretty much what I expect to see some times "we r teh stoopids - and we voat"
Re:my thoughts on conspiracy's (Score:5, Funny)
my thoughts on conspiracy's
I'm still trying to figure out what the Trilateral Commission, the Rothschilds, the Masons, and George Soros hope to gain by tricking people into being so actively bad at understanding the difference between the plural and possessive uses of the apostrophe. There must be some money in it, somewhere.
Re:my thoughts on conspiracy's (Score:5, Funny)
I think they stuff coal up the butts of grammar pedants and come back later harvesting diamonds.