Testing times

I see the anti vaxxers have moved on. Not content with causing the deaths of numerous children and spreading appalling diseases which should have been wiped from the face of the earth, they have turned their tiny little paranoid minds to cancer.

Apparently since mammograms, and every other cancer detecting test precedes the discovery of cancer, there is one obvious conclusion to draw from this.

Testing causes cancer. Obvious isn’t it?

The radiation from the mammogram machine causes breast cancer, the smear test is worse, although how scooping poop into a box and posting it off causes bowel cancer is a bit beyond me.

After all their war on vaccines is also based on the a similar fallacy, the post hoc ergo proptor hoc trap. Since autism is only discoverable at a certain age and that age is after children are vaccinated then vaccines cause autism. Simples.

It is really quite amazing that such people can actually think like this let alone that other people are willing to listen to them.

This really is at the level of the crops failed, the gods must be angry we must burn the witches level of thinking.

It also tells us a great deal about the state of education and the level of conspiracy theories in the world these days. For instance, the apparent car attack in Derby over the weekend, led to rumours that numerous fatalities were being covered up by the authorities.

Can you imagine the scale of risk, deceit, manipulation and lying necessary to even try such a thing, let alone the consequences if it was discovered?

But some people will have fallen for it and nothing will persuade them it is not the truth.

Doubtless Nigel Farage or someone like him will now be asking snide questions about “Why are people willing to believe such things of this government?” That is spreading the rumour, lending it credence and using it to undermine faith in the state all in one go.

Meanwhile race hatred will spread like cancer, and a cancer that is undetected because people are too terrified to test for it.

Ignorance and paranoia help the populists because they can use it to offer “simple” solutions.

Vaxxers, racists and holocaust deniers use the same techniques, and they feed off each other.

From autism, to the NHS is being broken by immigration, to asylum seekers live on huge benefits, to race riots and banning the RNLI from rescuing drowning babies.

Every little bit of every conspiracy theory helps only the extremes.

Which is why they are all so dangerous.

Jonty’s Jotting

From Jonty Bloom Media Ltd

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