“Some truths,” says Doug Bailey (The decline of fact and reason,
December 7), “really are inconvenient and have far-reaching implications for how
we live and breed”. He cites climate change and the environmental costs of
growth.
I can think of a couple or three other truths which are more inconvenient, so
much so that the media’s need for advertising revenue means they’re almost
entirely suppressed. One is the harm done by early childhood care. Two, the high
incidence of child abuse in single-parent families. Three, the harm done to
women by abortion – including the proven link between abortion and breast
cancer.
The facts are out there, but so are very powerful influencers preventing
any commentary in the media. Bailey says we must demand more of the fourth
estate and of ourselves; what we should demand is honesty, courage and
disinterest.
Otherwise we will continue, like the bedevilled Gadarene swine, to rush to
Noam Chomsky’s precipice.
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