WHO AMONG US HAS THE POWER TO ROUTINELY PLANT FAKE HEALTH-SCIENCE NEWS REPORTS IN THE MASS MEDIA?
2001 By Owen R. Fonorow Heart Disease is the number one killer in the United States, not because Science has failed, the cure is known, but because of a deliberate campaign to misinform and mislead the public. Fake health-science news reports are now appearing so often in the Press that ordinary people are beginning to take notice. Planted stories, resembling a professional CIA- or KGB-style propaganda campaign, are responsible for the death of at least 1000 Americans every day. The campaign has been in operation at least since 1984, and it quite probably has roots prior to 1970.[1] The perpetrators are apparently protected by the First Amendment to the United States constitution. Save defamation and libel, the American Press can print lies if it wants to. Propaganda masquerading as health-science news is not hard to spot, especially for those with knowledge of the Science behind the success of alternative medicine. The drumbeat that cholesterol is bad, causes heart disease, and every
