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In reply to the discussion: How Pharmaceuticals Came To Be The 4th Leading Cause Of Death In America [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)who try to get some facts out, words like 'woo' eg, not just repeated by one person, but by several, I know that the Big Corps have paid for a campaign to silence anyone who questions them.
Have you ever noticed that supporters of Global Corps can be found using repeated 'talking points', phrases, words, eg 'woo' while those with nothing to gain but finding the facts, use their OWN WORDS?
I first noticed this during the Bush years. When arguing with Right Wingers they all sounded the same, using the same 'insults' for 'liberals' to the point where I began to wonder if they were NOT all the same person. Then I learned about 'talking points'.
I had never experienced that before, several people all using the same, mostly very lame btw, 'talking points' and asked to speak in their own words, like WE, liberals, were noticeably doing by contrast.
Dems began to pick this up around 2004 in order to attack the left wing of the party.
When I see this 'language' being used now, I know I cannot trust the source.
'Woo'!
I like your word for the tactic and will follow their example and use it often!
'Poo'! That is all it is. They never, EVER discuss anything. It's almost as if there is a training center somewhere that teaches 'do not dare get into a discussion, just fling as much Poo around as you can in order to derail discussions where facts might be revealed'.
Except it doesn't work. And the older it gets the less it works.
This thread is excellent and I am very glad to have seen it as I believe prescription drugs helped kill my MIL a few years ago. Taken off statins, which she did not need, by a good doctor, unfortunately when she went for a check up to the hospital, they prescribed again.
People become addicted to them, dependent on them, as she did and once a doctor prescribes them, they are afraid not to take them.
I have never been on prescription drugs of any kind and intend to keep it that way after what I've seen among my family and friends.