Top 40 Fakeries in the modern world.

[Justplain]

This is a classic of fakery in the modern world. Priceless.

http://www.wakingtimes.com/2015/08/18/everything-is-fake-top-40-pieces-of-fakery-in-our-world/

[Bill Ryan]

This is a classic of fakery in the modern world. Priceless.

http://www.wakingtimes.com/2015/08/18/everything-is-fake-top-40-pieces-of-fakery-in-our-world/

A good list — apart from at the very end, where the author (Makia Freeman) sneaks in a bit of mindless Flat-Earth promotion. A giveaway clue to her ability to always make good judgments.

I would have included Fake Beauty and/or Fake Aesthetics, as per Paul Joseph Watson's inspired short video here:


The Truth About Popular Culture — a brilliant video by Paul Joseph Watson

(http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?95880-The-Truth-About-Popular-Culture----a-brilliant-video-by-Paul-Joseph-Watson)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyLUIXWnrC0

[Noelle]

In response to #6, Fake Scientific Research: For a graduate-level ethics in communication class, I wrote a paper on the problem of ghost-written medical journal articles. A pharmaceutical company hires a contract medical writer to write the paper and an expert-academic puts his/her name on it without contributing anything significant to it (honorary authorship). Despite companies such as Merck getting in trouble for this practice (of course, only after people suffered or, in many cases, died) and very clear professional codes of ethics, it continues to be an issue.

[Justplain]

In response to #6, Fake Scientific Research: For a graduate-level ethics in communication class, I wrote a paper on the problem of ghost-written medical journal articles. A pharmaceutical company hires a contract medical writer to write the paper and an expert-academic puts his/her name on it without contributing anything significant to it (honorary authorship). Despite companies such as Merck getting in trouble for this practice (of course, only after people suffered or, in many cases, died) and very clear professional codes of ethics, it continues to be an issue.

Hi LadyM, this is a facet of the msm that makes my blood boil. I remember reading an article masquarading as research promoting the benefits of statins (a class of drugs used for bloodpressure issues that has a long list of harmful side effects such as causing diabetes, cataracts and dementia) for non bloodpressure purposes. When you scrolled through the whole article, which was partially paid for by the canadian government for i dont know what reason, to find no mention of statins' famous negative side effects, and to discover in the last sentence that the research/article was funded by a swedish pharma company. No possible chance this article/fake research was objective. Now that's fake journalism for you!

[Noelle]

In response to #6, Fake Scientific Research: For a graduate-level ethics in communication class, I wrote a paper on the problem of ghost-written medical journal articles. A pharmaceutical company hires a contract medical writer to write the paper and an expert-academic puts his/her name on it without contributing anything significant to it (honorary authorship). Despite companies such as Merck getting in trouble for this practice (of course, only after people suffered or, in many cases, died) and very clear professional codes of ethics, it continues to be an issue.

Hi LadyM, this is a facet of the msm that makes my blood boil. I remember reading an article masquarading as research promoting the benefits of statins (a class of drugs used for bloodpressure issues that has a long list of harmful side effects such as causing diabetes, cataracts and dementia) for non bloodpressure purposes. When you scrolled through the whole article, which was partially paid for by the canadian government for i dont know what reason, to find no mention of statins' famous negative side effects, and to discover in the last sentence that the research/article was funded by a swedish pharma company. No possible chance this article/fake research was objective. Now that's fake journalism for you!

What's so crazy about the pharm-sponsored journal articles is that so many patients are in the dark; they don't question their doctors, who learn about drugs/treatments from these journals. I never would have known if I had not written the paper on it. When pharms get caught and make the news, how often is it "breaking" or "front page" news?

[Justplain]

This is a classic of fakery in the modern world. Priceless.

http://www.wakingtimes.com/2015/08/18/everything-is-fake-top-40-pieces-of-fakery-in-our-world/

A good list — apart from at the very end, where the author (Makia Freeman) sneaks in a bit of mindless Flat-Earth promotion. A giveaway clue to her ability to always make good judgments.

I would have included Fake Beauty and/or Fake Aesthetics, as per Paul Joseph Watson's inspired short video here:


The Truth About Popular Culture — a brilliant video by Paul Joseph Watson

(http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?95880-The-Truth-About-Popular-Culture----a-brilliant-video-by-Paul-Joseph-Watson)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyLUIXWnrC0


Thanks, Bill, you make a very good addition as Mr. Watson's video is excellent and piercingly inciteful.

Even if Makia slips up on her last post in the top40 fakery list, almost every one of her points is well researched, and i think this is a very good list to work through.