Administrators Tom Wetmore Posted January 22, 2011 Administrators Posted January 22, 2011 From Reader's Digest, an excerpt from The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear, by Seth Mnookin: Quote: On the Internet, facts float about freely and are recombined more according to the preferences of intuition than the rules of cognition: Mercury is toxic, toxins can cause developmental disorders, mercury is in vaccines; ergo, vaccines cause autism. Combined with the self-reinforcing nature of online communities and content-starved, cash-poor journalistic culture that gravitates toward neat narratives at the expense of messy truths, this disdain for actualities has led to a world with increasingly porous boundaries between facts and beliefs, a world in which individualized notions of reality, no matter how bizarre or irrational, are repeatedly validated. And I am not talking about medicine or science... Quote "Absurdity reigns and confusion makes it look good." "Sinless perfection is such a shallow goal." "I love God only as much as the person I love the least." *Forgiveness is always good news. And that is the gospel truth. (And finally, the ideas expressed above are solely my person views and not that of any organization with which I am associated.)
Administrators Gail Posted January 22, 2011 Administrators Posted January 22, 2011 LOL Gotcha! I do like that title: The Panic Virus. Quote Isaiah 32:17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
LifeHiscost Posted January 22, 2011 Posted January 22, 2011 From Reader's Digest, an excerpt from The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear, by Seth Mnookin: Quote: On the Internet, facts float about freely and are recombined more according to the preferences of intuition than the rules of cognition: Mercury is toxic, toxins can cause developmental disorders, mercury is in vaccines; ergo, vaccines cause autism. Combined with the self-reinforcing nature of online communities and content-starved, cash-poor journalistic culture that gravitates toward neat narratives at the expense of messy truths, this disdain for actualities has led to a world with increasingly porous boundaries between facts and beliefs, a world in which individualized notions of reality, no matter how bizarre or irrational, are repeatedly validated. And thus it has ever been, since: "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."Genesis 2:17 KJV "And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:"Genesis 3:4 KJV :or sometime earlier in the courts of Heaven. The only difference is the perceived speed at which the confusion travels, and I'm convinced even that remains the same when consideration of the following is recognized. "That which has been is what will be, That which is done is what will be done, And there is nothing new under the sun."Ecclesiastes 1:9 NKJV However the speed which confusion now proliferates lends credence to the joy of the near return of Jesus. "So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors." Matthew 24:33 KJV "I tell you the truth, this generation will not pass from the scene until all these things take place." Matthew 24:34 NLT God blesses! Quote Lift Jesus up!!
Moderators Bravus Posted January 22, 2011 Moderators Posted January 22, 2011 http://www.bravus.com/blog/?p=2202 Quote Truth is important
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