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19th March 2014, 02:08 PM | #1 |
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Survey: Half of Americans believe in at least one medical conspiracy theory
Select findings:
Published in JAMA Internal Medicine (Allegedly - I can't find a link to it - ?) ETA: Found it. [Medical Conspiracy Theories and Health Behaviors in the United States] |
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19th March 2014, 04:45 PM | #2 |
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Wow. That's really a shame.
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19th March 2014, 05:18 PM | #3 |
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I found the percentages of the people who neither agreed nor disagreed even more discouraging.
As for one-in-five believing cell phones cause cancer, do they believe it enough to not use cell phones? ETA: Agenda 21 was passed in 1992 when the world population was 5.5 billion. Today it is 7.1 billion. Monsanto and the Evil Cabal appear to be comically inept. |
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19th March 2014, 06:54 PM | #4 |
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Survey results are so fun...and almost unbelievable at times. Like the Jay Leno man on the street questions.
I wonder what percent people believe doctors are in cahoots with undertakers? |
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19th March 2014, 07:22 PM | #5 |
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Oh, indeed they are: http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=1702722
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21st March 2014, 04:09 AM | #6 |
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What's the percentage of USAians that believe in alien abduction, angel visitation and gods?
Some people are just gullible, ignorant and stupid. |
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21st March 2014, 04:57 AM | #7 |
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And some people wonder "why we bother" with such "stupid conspiracy theories" that "no one would really believe".
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21st March 2014, 06:19 AM | #8 |
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21st March 2014, 09:26 AM | #9 |
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Yeah, this is my favorite comment on the matter...
"How’re we supposed to know what to believe when we’re presented with decades of peer-reviewed research supporting the consensus of the scientific community and then my aunt posts the exact opposite thing on Facebook?" Half Of Americans Believe In Medical Conspiracy Theories |
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21st March 2014, 11:44 AM | #11 |
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21st March 2014, 12:46 PM | #12 |
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22nd March 2014, 07:58 AM | #13 |
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Agh! Curse you for that link. And curses to the reporter for his ignorant misuse of the phrase "begs the question".
I know that it's a losing battle, and that "begs the question" has lost its logical meaning decades ago, but it still bugs the heck out of me. It does not mean, "raises the question." It means, "assumes that which is to be proven," dagnab it. |
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23rd March 2014, 04:57 AM | #15 |
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I wonder what a Venn Diagram of this would look like. I'm willing to bet you'd see a lot of overlap.
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23rd March 2014, 09:12 AM | #16 |
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25th March 2014, 10:18 AM | #19 |
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25th March 2014, 10:28 PM | #23 |
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4th June 2014, 08:32 AM | #24 |
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NPR did a story on this topic this morning. They claim 50% of Americans believe in at least one conspiracy, not just medical conspiracies.
http://www.npr.org/2014/06/04/318733...iracy-theories |
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This thread is one half sad.
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