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K8-EEE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-12-09 09:52 PM
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How to fight the massive misinformation about healthcare?
A friend just posted this POS 'DON'T COPY EUROPE'S MISTAKES ON HEALTHCARE' on her facebook, of course funded by some fundie "non profit organization."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZum_o-GAEI

It's so full of simplistic, cherry-picked "facts" and "conclusions" it boggles the mind. Of course this and other corporate-backed orgs put out OCEANS AND OCEANS of this propaganda, do you think it is worth arguing against it, or do you just figure anybody following that logic just WANTS to think this way?

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AllentownJake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-12-09 09:53 PM
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1. Europeans are happier than Americans
One day Americans will figure that at...probably around the same time we stop having Stealth Bomber flyovers at sporting events.
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-12-09 09:53 PM
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2. one person at a time.....
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-12-09 09:59 PM
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3. This is how bad information gets spread.
My apolitical step daughter, who is a fabulous gardener, picked up some absurd BS astroturfed onto one of her gardening websites about Michelle Obama's kitchen garden at the White House. She of course took it as true because the website is normally reliable. I had to really argue her down about how this crap is spread. But I didn't even know until then how insidious it is that they are not only astroturfing news publications, but now inserting it into hobbyists information websites and publications.
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RKP5637 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-12-09 10:08 PM
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4. It's like a horrific disease spreading. n/t
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