Report: How Your Mind is Manipulated with Astroturfing

6 corporations control ninety percent of the media: television, radio, print, and online. These corporations do not have your interests in mind. The term for this is Astroturfing.

How can you know the information you are ingesting is valid? It is far harder than what you might think. The pervasion of the corrupt media runs far deeper than most people can comprehend.

The extent to which information is manipulated is enormous. Let’s say you hear about a new drug for an ailment you have, or your doctor recommends it, and you decide to research it to be on the safe side. Ultimately, you conclude it is safe and effective because everywhere you look, the information seems to support this conclusion. You feel good knowing you’ve done your homework, and fill the prescription. What you don’t know is that:

• The Wikipedia page for the drug is monitored and controlled by a special-interest editor hired by the drug company.
• The positive study you found while searching online was also financed by the drug company.
• The nonprofit organization you stumbled across online that recommends the drug was secretly founded and funded by the drug company.
• The news articles reporting the positive findings of that study sound suspiciously alike for a reason — they’re reiterating information provided by the drug company’s PR department; hence, you will not find any contradictory information there either.
• Doctors promoting the drug and making derogatory comments about those who worry about side effects are actually paid consultants for the drug company.
• The medical lecture your own personal doctor attended, where he became convinced the drug is safe and efficacious, was also sponsored by the drug company.

A perfect example of astroturfing occurred in 2015, when the American Council for Science and Health (ACSH) — a pro-GMO front group — attacked Dr. Mehmet Oz for reporting on the now scientifically established hazards of glyphosate. Mainstream media swallowed and regurgitated the vicious propaganda without any critical thought whatsoever. Slate magazine publicized the attack with the headline “Letter from Prominent Doctors Implies Columbia Should Fire Dr. Oz for Being a Quack.”How to identify astroturfing and what are some concrete examples of dangerous medical information being given out to the public? All on the next page.

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