Please DO NOT drink bleach or isopropyl alcohol...

Make sure to check out Brad Pitt as Dr. Fauci on SNL last night.

"For the past five years, as concerned parents of autistic kids, we’ve been documenting, following and reporting the “bleach cures” movement. The Genesis II Church and Kerri Rivera, among others, have been selling products like chlorine dioxide, marketed as “Miracle Mineral Solution,” or M.M.S., stating that the substances will cure autism, acne, cancer, diabetes, Covid-19 and so much more. This is a crucial red flag for pseudoscience: When a product claims it can cure anything, it’s a fake.

It has taken a pandemic to expose this movement and the ways that pseudoscience scammers use social media and fear to sell their products. It’s crucial, now more than ever, to look at the consequences of misinformation and why we need a more responsible approach to content management from big tech companies such as Facebook and our regulating authorities.

We have been infiltrating pseudoscience groups on social media in order to report these companies to regulators, with mixed results. We’ve gotten a close look at the psychology that draws people toward such products — and in our view, it is akin to the psychology that drives some of the Trumpist worldview. It is a siege mentality, rooted in the ideology of the anti-vaccine movement, based on anecdotes, conspiracy theories and a fear-mongering distrust of so-called Big Government."

www.nytimes.com/2020/04/26/opinion/coronavirus-bleach-trump-autism.html


It IS a siege mentality. The world is against them. The 'adversary'. The devil. The media. The scientists. The UN. The WHO. etc.


What is really 'against them' is reality. And that isn't going to change. It's easy to be bamboozled by cults and siege mentalities when those in power have a monopoly on information getting in.

But w/the internet, those days of monopoly power over information are over. They can't burn 'heretics' at the stake anymore. Knowledge and information and reality will get through. The 'true believers' will continue to feel beleaguered as they shrink in size and power. I hope I live to see the final succumbing of crazy beliefs to reality, honesty, rationality and evidence.

Pam Ayers is a British poet from the 70s mainly, iirc.   She had a knack of being straight to the point.   

Around the bend means someone is nuts/mad/stupid.