One thing has stood out, almost over the same tragedy, all the painful issue of the earthquake in Japan and accidents with nuclear power: the terrible degree of misinformation, if not direct manipulation, which have been view these events by the media. Some excess (the opponents of nuclear energy) and other default (those for) we were hammered from all sides with information mowed, inaccurate and in some cases patently false and directed.
One of the claims I think that most accurately summarizes this comment that was caused by an information agency that claimed that Japan was running out the iodine tablets that are taken for protection against radioactive iodine, and that people were making salt collection iodized sea to take its place. Many newspapers, including The Country , echoed the news, and published as they arrived from the agencies. Thus came striking:
Well, no. After the alarm and concern caused by the news, all proved to be a .... "Judgement" (I would call directly from another form, but ..). As a English resident of Japan stated in an email to the Reader Advocate newspaper El Pais , photo is of a supermarket in China. "
A CHINESE SUPERMARKET! Nobody had bothered to check, for the hundreds of thousands of rounds to be given the photograph by the publishing world that labels and photo ads are in Chinese, not Japanese? And also do not buy salt by the case of filing with iodine, but because it seemed that the sea salt was contaminated. Is not nothing about it squeaked ANYONE?
This should cause that citizens once aware of the importance of critical thinking and proven knowledge in dealing with the facts, if you want to reach an understanding, even for a simple approach-of reality.
contrast Should not everything that comes through the gutter width of media? Should not we be more critical of the categorical statements, with pompous statements, with the "immutable truths" by political gurus, economic, social and / or educational?
Should not carry off with the seers, astrologers, quack, witches and shamans and all the trash that we try to sneak their hallucinations without evidence to support their outlandish claims AND WITHOUT CONTRAST OR SHOW PROPERLY?
The answer is yes, of course, and as of now.
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