I Still Don't Believe You

If you say it long enough, and loud enough, it is so.

Global Warming is real, global warming is real, global warming…

Immunization is bad, immunization is bad, immunization…

Whole milk makes you fat, whole milk makes you fat, whole milk…

I was amazed to hear our President during his State of the Union address speak of global warming as though it is fact:

“I know that there are those who disagree with the overwhelming scientific evidence on climate change. But even if you doubt the evidence…”

“Even if you doubt the evidence…”  Doubt the evidence, good heavens, is he really that out to lunch!?  The evidence was obliterated and proven to be a total joke.  Even in light of the overwhelming number of emails and data pointing to the whole global warming thing being a contrived hoax believers just can’t let it go.  We’re talking one thousand emails and 72 documents! that were brought to light.  That’s an awful lot to fake.

Or take the newly reported hoax concerning the link between immunization and autism. God has supplied for us a way to protect our children from once deadly diseases and because of a deceptive study, many today refuse to immunize their children.  Try undoing that lie.

“This retraction by the Lancet came far too late,” said Paul Offit, chief of infectious diseases at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a coinventor of a vaccination for babies against a gastrointestinal virus, Rotateq, that is marketed by Merck & Co. “It’s very easy to scare people; it’s very hard to unscare them.”

“The withdrawal (of the supposed link between autism and immunization) supports the scientific evidence that vaccinations don’t cause autism, but isn’t likely to persuade advocacy groups that believe in a link.”

Just like global warming, this lie has been chanted so often that it has become a fact.

Or how about something as obvious as milk, whole milk.  Somewhere along the way we were convinced that whole milk makes you fat.  There aint no undoing that!

Imagine: “Scientists discovered a difference between overweight children who drink full-fat milk every day and those who do not. Children who often drink milk with a fat content of 3% are less overweight.  But wait there’s more.  And yet it doesn’t matter.  Since you believe whole milk will make you fat you will continue to buy the fat free.

And so, we hold fast to our beliefs and pretty soon they become convictions in spite of revealed truth and I wonder why.  Is it because we want to think that the world is doomed to being ever warmer ’til we burn up?  Do we want to be afraid of something that will keep our children from serious illnesses?  Are we afraid of the fat of the land?