They Can Even Tell When a Bitch Is Ovulating!

Every once in a while we have to re-evaluate our beliefs.
Every once in a while we have to realize that we don't know everything.
Every once in a while science is only a best guess.
Every once in a while we know nothing.

I know that opinions are rife with rhetoric and we have to take everything with a grain of salt.
If we believed everything that we read then we'd have a tough time making it to work without hiding in fear (David Icke's books) or running off and following our dreams (Self-Help books).
But how can we honestly not take some fictional stories and see a it of truth in them.
Da Vinci Code opened our eyes to what Graham Hancock has been trying to tell us for years.
Tom Clancy must have certain truth in his flawed governments.
Chuck Palahniuk even admits that most of what he writes is from people tell him about their lives.
So when I finished reading State of Fear by Michael Crichton, I was shaken.
I couldn't believe some of what he was telling me in the book.
But, he has documented evidence to back it up.
But, data can be manipulated.
But, if the same data is manipulated to show both sides of an argument how can we be sure of which side is truthfully represented in the data set?
The scariest part of the book wasn't it's central issue (is globa warming a real threat?), what got to me was the theory of populace control through fear.
Michael Moore talked about it in "Bowling for Columbine".
We see fear-mongering on the evening news every night.
But have we ever wondered why it's there?
Do the news shows decide to place that fear in us?
Or is someone else putting it there?

Look at post-9/11 America.
The government uses the fear of a intangible threat to pass laws that allow for monitoring and surveillance of its own citizens.
Of course these laws are only there to keep the citizens safe.
Right?

Google didn't bow to the pressure.
When asked by the United States to provide a list of search terms entered by users of the site, Google refused. At least some organizations aren't Kowtowing to the demands of authoritarian rule.

So, where does this fear take us? When will we say enough is enough?
It's like that argument about not wanting to fight a war until they come to your door and knock it down.

But of course as long as media and scientists are funded by organizations with government interests at their center we must always wonder about the reports we hear and the data we read. We must always question why they are telling us this.

And with regime change comes opinion change. And when we are no longer afraid, then new fears will be created.