Politicians use the same idea to manipulate us to respond with votes or support laws that hurt us or take away our rights under the guise of protecting us.
My current pet peeve is the charlatans, who like snake oil salesman of the nineteenth century; manipulate people with half truths, skewing your perspective with fear, guilty, or predisposed prejudices. This is often accomplished by feeding you facts out of context and or order. The manipulation is capable of making even the most seasoned of us fall prey to reactive or panic behavior. They take truths, leave out other facts (taking them out of context), and put them in an order that guides you down an apparently obvious path that they have chosen. Rather than layout all of the facts and allow you to make your own educated decision, they chose for you and parse that which does not support their cause. It is disingenuous and deceptive.
Researchers and Investigators spend their life culling the world for answers, searching for minute to large details and evidence that will lead us to discover that "elusive truth". The skill set that separates the experts from the hacks in that game is an understanding of how to maintain integrity in your findings, be objective, balanced, thoughtful and benign. Emotion, politics and even natural prejudice has no place in the process of investigational research. The final result must be objective, repeatable and verifiable.
So let's look at a simple example of how to perform quality investigative research; I recently was caused to revisit the topic of colloidal and ionic silver solutions. My Mother purchased a new Silver solution generator from one of the best known companies in the USA who heavily promotes Silver. The company claims dominance in the area colloidal silver and heavily touts its health benefits. My Mother and I have used ionic silver solutions for over 15 years and have experienced positive results in topical as well as oral applications. On the same day that the new "colloidal silver" generator arrived I went to a friend's survival meeting. He had a guest speaker there to talk about the use of colloidal and ionic silver. The speaker was very positive with much anecdotal supporting commentary on the "power of the silver".
Admittedly I have always found the hype around the Colloidal Silver benefits to be discomforting. See my articles Silver and Health and Realistic Application of Silver. The problem that I have any of these "alternative" solutions to common stubborn problems is that people are either desperate for a savior or that they are always looking for a green or anti establishment solution. They don't even realize that they do it. They allow their prejudices / biases to override good fact checking.
The picture to below demonstrates how the mind can be easily tricked by triggering trained responses which report false perspectives.
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