Wisdom of the Idiots: part 1

Wisdom of the Idiots: part 1 - How feeling attacked changes everything.

Because some people perceived what they believed was a health problem to them they began to look at the quality of the water being delivered through their taps. Their discoveries were surprising. Using regular scientific methods and regular processes with regular scientific tools, regular scientists' analytical results showed that there were a number of undesirable qualities and potentially harmful contents. He shared his findings, and others have come to the same conclusion and some make it their business to inform as many others as possible.

Another someone thought he was being tricked over money so he began to look into money – it's nature, function, creation, circulation and so on. His discoveries surprised him. He shared his unhappy findings and other people also looked and agreed with his conclusions. Some of them make it their business to try to inform as many others as possible.

A third person thought he was ill because of a vaccination he'd had so he looked into the story of vaccinations. His discoveries surprised him. The people he spoke to about his findings also looked and agreed with the conclusions of the vaccine creators themselves that vaccinations don't work and are more harmful than helpful. Some of them make it their business to inform as many other people as possible about this.

Yet another person thought desperately that there must be a cure for the cancer he was dying from so he looked into it. His discoveries surprised him. The people he spoke to about his findings also looked and agreed he was right that several known cancer cures already existed. Some of them make it their business to inform as many other people as possible.

There are a number of other controversial matters which could be put here but I'm sure you get the idea. Add them all together, put them in the mouth of one person and he and they can be dismissed as a conspiracy theorist and a conspiracy theory respectively. Look at them individually, however, and they are irrefutable.
This is a problem.
Musashi.

In Wisdom of the Idiots: part 2, I introduce Reductionism in the Social Sciences, the New Pantheistic Perspective on Irreducible Complexity, plus the worrying future of the Trouser Press.