{"id":5804,"date":"2023-08-21T18:10:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T16:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/?p=5804"},"modified":"2023-08-21T23:48:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T21:48:29","slug":"fda-admits-it-lied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/2023-08-21\/fda-admits-it-lied\/","title":{"rendered":"Once again, the FDA admits it lied to us. And once more, we yawn"},"content":{"rendered":"

On critical matters, our medical authorities have no interest in settling the science. Instead, battles are won in the arena of smear and insinuation<\/em><\/p>\n

The reality is that most of us are not ready for the truth. We want reassurance. We cling to our comfort blankets because the idea that we live in a world in which our and our families\u2019 interests are not paramount is too disturbing.<\/p>\n

The idea that our fates are entirely dependent on a giant Ponzi scheme that might come crashing down at any moment from any one of multiple design flaws \u2013 an ecological crisis, a nuclear catastrophe, a pandemic or a hubristic mis-step with Artificial Intelligence \u2013 is simply too terrifying.<\/p>\n

So, even as we mock a figurehead like Donald Trump, Joe Biden or Boris Johnson, we remain deeply invested in the system that keeps producing them. We need<\/em> to believe \u2013 and just as desperately as a child refusing, a little longer, to give in to suspicions that Father Christmas might not exist. Despite all the evidence to the contrary, our societies, we insist, are on a continuous upwards trajectory named progress.<\/p>\n

Few are willing to consider that we might actually be in a death spiral. So instead of doing something to change the world, we bury our heads. We ignore every sign, however blatant, of the system\u2019s inherent dysfunction and corruption.<\/p>\n

Horse dewormer<\/strong><\/h3>\n