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by xcryogenicx 3144 days ago
> This kind of mentality that someone's news article counts as a source is poisonous.

Most underrated comment in the world.

This coupled with for-profit journalism and the atrophy of critical thinking is giving rise to nonsense like anti-vax, chemtrails, and flat Earth.

In America, the public has been led so astray by both the media and the government about things like basic macronutrients that a recent report found 1/3 of Americans, 100 million people, are diabetic are prediabetic (will have type II diabetes in 5 years).

https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/data/statistics/statistics-repo...