Deep dive into stupid: Meet the growing group that rejects germ theory

Yet another example of the negative consequences that come from selling snake oil in the &quot;click-based&quot; economy created by social media algorithms.<p>The people feeding this Facebook group are likely making a tidy living off this. Something that would have been far less likely before Facebook, Twitter, etc.<p>The cumulative effect of so many fringe groups being pumped up like this is, paradoxically, they act like viruses that make society itself sick.

Disruption -- technological, political, disaster, whatever -- makes people go nuts.<p>Plus, the way social media amplifies hysteria for profit would make William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Goebbels blush.<p>FWIW, I found these interesting:<p>Agnotology, the study of ignorance <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Agnotology" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Agnotology</a><p>The Last Archive <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thelastarchive.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thelastarchive.com</a><p>Prediction: Like coronavirus, these memetic pathogens are the new normal.

Pasteur may have conceded that Bechamp was correct on his deathbed, according to Hans Selye[1].<p>[1]<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.susandoreydesigns.com&#x2F;insights&#x2F;pasteur-recant.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.susandoreydesigns.com&#x2F;insights&#x2F;pasteur-recant.htm...</a>

The rate of increase shows we have a systemic information problem.

Usually a bad bet to say that things can be experimentally proven don’t exist. Unless they argue that the agar plate needs to detox after being scratched or the milk when it’s a few too many days old. And I recall they proved the helicobacter pylori relation with ulcers by drinking them and then taking antibiotics. Wishing doesn’t usually make it so.

Wow the language in this article... Don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve seen something so disrespectful from an official magazine before.