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[–]LordoftheFlies 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Okay, leaving aside the tinfoil hat aspects of this post, yeah, people absolutely would. Look at how the media whipped up a frenzy around Covid. Not saying it wasn't dangerous, especially to people at risk, but the news was framing this as something on the level of a zombie outbreak. And people reacted accordingly, which the media then gleefully reported as "evidence" of the severity, which had more people jumping, and on it went.

The media has gone from reporting news (with varying degrees of bias, but that's inescapable in my opinion) to shaping news, and I don't think they're going to be terribly eager to give up that power now that they've had it for a while. And if it's decided for some inexplicable reason that long pork and soylent green are now on the menu, I expect that a blitz of favorable reporting will begin before the rest of us have time to pick our jaws up off of the floor.

[–]lietzmk 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The practice of prescribing human remains or their byproducts for healing goes back hundreds of years. Example they sold ground up Egyptian mummies as a wellness product.