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Media Buzzwords to Silence the Politically-Incorrect
By Dr. Alan Cantwell
Immediately after the bombing of the Federal Building in
In a Los Angeles Times op-ed piece (24 March, 2002), Gale Holland claims
the
Predictably, Holland uses the paranoia buzzword in his final paragraph:
What is obvious is that the major media quickly accept the politically-correct
version
Any researcher who has dug hard to find “the truth” knows that it is rarely
found in
Despite these shortcomings, the media seem to take pride in dismissing
people as
According to Webster’s Dictionary, paranoia is a serious psychiatric diagnosis:
a
A definite diagnosis of paranoia requires the expertise of a psychiatric
health
All this is ignored by journalists who indiscriminately label people as
paranoid. Their
A paranoid person is not normal because paranoia indicates a diseased mind.
In their quest for power, politicians often portray their perceived enemies
as
Labelling people as diseased is an effective way of discrediting and silencing them.
The media overkill of paranoia is evident in Michael Kelly’s “The Road
to Paranoia,”
As I read “The Road to Paranoia” I suddenly realised I was part of Kelly’s
story. For
My publishing house, Aries Rising Press, had published two books on the
subject of
Despite all this I had not expected to find Aries Rising Press included
in Kelly’s list
Kelly did mention the conspiratorial belief that “AIDS is a government
plot to kill off
During the past two decades of media reports on the various theories of
AIDS
Initially, the media heralded the green monkey theory of AIDS, first proposed
by
In addition, Gallo’s monkey theory has been replaced by the chimpanzee
theory.
Ex-New York City Health Commissioner Stephen Joseph, in his AIDS book,
In this notorious government-sponsored syphilis experiment, public health
doctors
Joseph writes that the memory of Tuskegee “fueled a conspiratorial theory
that
But conspiracy theorists know that government doctors and scientists, and
the
Only a fool would believe that government-sponsored conspiracies do not
exist.
Charges of secret and unethical experiments against helpless citizens are
not the
It is time to speak out against falsely labelling people as paranoid.
Paranoid and paranoia are acceptable terms when used in a medical setting.
But
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