How much does it cost to ensure so many people believe microwave radiation is safe - despite 60 years of scientific evidence that proves it is not? From Bertrand Russells 1952 book The Impact of Science on Society : This subject [mass psychology/education] will make great strides when it is taken up by scientists under a scientific dictatorship. Anaxagoras maintained that snow is black, but no one believed him. The social psychologists of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakeable conviction that snow is black. Various results will soon be arrived at. First, that the influence of home is obstructive. Second, that not much can be done unless indoctrination begins before the age of ten. Third, that verses set to music and repeatedly intoned are very effective. Fourth, that the opinion that snow is white must be held to show a morbid taste for eccentricity. But I anticipate. It is for future scientists to make these maxims precise and discover exactly how much it costs per head to make children believe that snow is black, and how much less it would cost to make them believe it is dark grey. - 40 Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society (1952). ISBN 0-415-10906-X
Posted on: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 09:16:03 +0000
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