Have we already been visited by aliens?

Re:Have we already been visited by aliens? by eloff on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @01:14PM (#25849817)

Yeah that's a good one.

Another is recommending trans-fat based margarine over butter. That was counter-productive health advice that took decades to reverse - even although the evidence it was based on was extremely flimsy.

Once the group-think machine gets going in a direction, it has a tremendous amount of inertia.

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Re:Have we already been visited by aliens? by logicchains on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @09:16PM (#25854527)

>That was counter-productive health advice that took decades to reverse - even although the evidence it was based on was extremely flimsy.

I think this was more a case of lobbying by certain agricultural producers than ignorance. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/14823257_Food_Lobbi...

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Re:Have we already been visited by aliens? by pdimitar on Thursday January 21, 2021 @10:37AM (#25859945)

True, but the point still stands: a lot of people can be influenced by something no matter its origins. Once they can say "X thousand can't be wrong" then you and your pesky idea backed up by facts and evidence can go to hell.

Sadly history is full of such occurrences.

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