[Craic] USA Today Smears Mercola Over Vitamin C and D Information

[Arthur Blomme]

Hi all

An important part of the World Social Forum  in 2016 was the World Forum 
on Liberation Theology.  My take away from the forum was an appreciation 
of how our belief systems have been colonized to support the interests 
of our Neo-liberal oligarchies.  Many of us cannot see any possibilities 
other than the status-quo beliefs that we are being fed by the media and 
the authorities.   I have come to understand that  a role of theology is 
to decolonize our belief system freeing us to face the evidence and 
truth before us.   It is to do battle with the Neo-liberal  colonizers 
of our minds.

No where is this more critical as in the area of health and nutrition.  
This article demonstrates How this battle is forming now. There is a 
danger when the  left is encouraged to  blindly accept corporate 
controlled media.

Mercola has been an outspoken advocate of nutritional science and critic 
of profit driven big Pharma.

Regards

Art



  USA Today Smears Mercola Over Vitamin C and D Information


      Story at-a-glance

  * Mainstream media, supported by monopoly tech platforms like Google,
    YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, are going to great lengths to control
    the narrative of what you see and read about the COVID-19 pandemic
  * May 2, 2020, USA Today tried to debunk my April 7, 2020, article,
    “Vitamins C and D Finally Adopted as Coronavirus Treatment,” which
    has more than 814,600 views, without presenting any counterevidence
  * The majority of mainstream media in the U.S. are owned, funded
    (through advertising) — and therefore easily controlled — by only a
    few powerful corporate entities and industries, some of which are
    overseas and may not even have American interests at heart
  * Only 47% of American adults trust mainstream digital publishers to
    report accurate information about COVID-19. Still, 85% trust the CDC
    and 77% trust WHO, both of which have the same conflicts of interest
    as most mainstream media
  * Both vitamin C and D have an enormous amount of evidence showing
    they provide important immune function benefits, and that your
    immune function is your front-line defense against all illness,
    including COVID-19

The fact that there is an information war going on is quite evident at 
this point. Mainstream media, supported by monopoly tech platforms like 
Google 
<https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/05/10/google-and-your-privacy.aspx>, 
YouTube 
<https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/05/05/youtube-censorship.aspx>, 
Facebook 
<https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2019/03/27/facebook-criminal-investigation.aspx> 
and Twitter, are going to great lengths to control the narrative of what 
you see and read about the COVID-19 pandemic.

Videos questioning the narrative — even when done by health 
professionals and scientists — are taken down faster than you can share 
them. Social media accounts of well-respected health professionals are 
being suppressed and removed. Twitter is even trialing a moderator tool 
that warns users when they’re about to post “harmful” language, although 
it’s unclear what the company might deem harmful.^1


    Fact-Checking at Its Worst

“Fact-checking” is also in overdrive, with journalists who are clueless 
about health and choose to side with the authoritarians writing articles 
“debunking” clear and provable facts without any counterevidence 
whatsoever.

*Check out this rest of the story out on Mercola.com:* 
<https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/05/18/fact-bias-check-usa-today.aspx?cid_medium=etaf&cid=share>https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/05/18/fact-bias-check-usa-today.aspx?cid_medium=etaf&cid=share



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