Europe may actually ban neonicanoids

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble

They chose, due to what you are calling their "primitive" brain, to smoke even though it hurt them.

Those were people chemically addicted. Let us not forget non-addicts.

Pre and early 1950 research soundly demonstrated cigarettes kill. But 1950 non-addicts (and in mass numbers) started smoking because advertising said it was good. Because sexy movie stars smoked. Because advertising showed people doing healthy activities with a butt hanging from their mouth. Because doctors on television (the internet of its time) said smoking makes one healthier. Jack Benny, George Burns, and Humphrey Bogart did it. Many examples of manipulation posted previously.

Early and pre 1950 science simply got ignored. Smoking was cool. Whereas smoking twenty somethings in decades before WWII were about 20%, that number increased to well over 40%. With more than 50% of males smoking in the early 1950s. And increasing to 60% in 1960.

Why would so many start smoking when it smells so bad, when every smoker can (supposidely) feel it is harmful, and research said it was unhealthy? Because a majority are that easily manipulated - brainwashed by advertising. To ignore all else.

If smoking smelled so bad and if everyone could feel harm, then why did smoking numbers increase sharply from 22% to as much as 61%? Advertising preached it as good for health. Why did so many believe advertising and ignore research from JAMA and equivalent UK publications? Because most who are so easily manipulated have no idea how easily they can be manipulated.

Why is it illegal for the Federal government to do research into gun violence? Otherwise people might actually think cognitively. Better is to know only what they feel.

Were people manipulated by advertising? Professionals had numbers that prove they could manpulate many to do what was otherwise harmful. Zimbardo's famous experiment demonstrates same. Because about half the population can be manipulated to acts contrary to what they would do if thinking cognitively.

Hilter had similar tricks. They would output a high frequency sound in the PA system during party rallies. Most were unaware of that sound. When Hitler stepped up, that sound was turned off. The crowd felt better; become robust. A herd mentality would take over. They believed Hitler was a great man because they could feel it. Few had any idea how easily they had been manipulated. Most knew Hitler was good because they felt so.

Large numbers are easily manipulated to ignore facts. Rush Limbaugh, et al got rich because of it. Facts said no reasons exist to believe Saddam had WMDs. Why did so many believe myths and lies? Because so many forget lessons even taught in junior high science. Because many (if not most) 'know' mostly from primitive feelings. So many are that easily manipulated to stop thinking cognitively; especially ignore numbers. The herd mentality.

Only a minority usually learn from and act cognitively. Many only learn to wait and be told. Most don't demand underlying reasons and numbers. By disparaging the bourgeois and intelligencia, Hilter succesfully kept the majority brainwashed, uniformed, devoid of facts, and inspired by primitive feelings.

How many now believe in torture only because they feel it works? Brainwashing works.