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Indoctrination & Propaganda vs. Education

after charts in Walene James' book "Immunization: The Reality Behind
the Myth"

Indoctrination & Propaganda
   

Education
1a. One-sided: Different or opposing views are either ignored,
misrepresented, under-represented, or denigrated.     1b. Many
sided: Issues examined from many points of view; opposition fairly
represented.
2a. Uses generalizations, "allness" statements, and lack of specific
references and data.     2b. Uses qualifiers: Statements supported with
specific references and data.
3a. Card Stacking: Data carefully selected - even distorted - to
present only the best or worse possible case. Language used to
conceal.     3b. Balanced: Presents samples from a wide range of
available data on the subject. Language used to reveal.
4a. Misleading use of statistics.     4b. Statistical references
qualified with respect to size, duration, criteria, controls, source
and subsidizer.
5a. Herding: Ignores distinctions and subtle differences. Attempts to
bring together superficially similar elements together. Reasons by
analogy.     5b. Discrimination: Points out differences and subtle
distinctions. Use analogies carefully, pointing out differences and
non-applicability.
6a. False Dilemma (either/or): Only two solutions to the problem or
two ways of viewing the issue - the "right way" (writer or speaker's
way) and the "wrong way" (any other way).     6b. Alternatives:
There are many ways of solving a problem or viewing an issue.
7a. Appeals to Authority: Statements by selected authority figures
used to clinch an argument. "Only the expert knows" approach.     7b.
Appeals to reason: Statements by authority figures and concerned
parties used to stimulate thought and discussion. "Experts seldom
agree".
8a. Appeals to consensus or bandwagon approach: "Everybody's doing it
so it must be right".     8b. Appeals to fact: Facts selected from broad
data base. Logical, ethical, aesthetic and psycho-spiritual aspects
considered.
9a. Appeals to emotions and emotional responses: Uses words and
pictures with strong emotional connotations.     9b. Appeals to
people's capacity for thoughtful, reasoned responses: Uses emotionally
neutral words and illustrations.
10a. Labeling: Uses labels and derogatory language to describe
proponents of opposing viewpoint.     10b. Avoids labels and
derogatory language: Addresses the argument, not the people supporting
a particular viewpoint.
11a. Promotes attitudes of attack and/or defense with the aim of
selling a position or product.     11b. Promotes attitudes of openness
and inquiry. Aim is to discover.
12a. Ignores assumptions and built-in biases.     12b. Explores
assumptions and built-in biases.
13a. Language promotes lack of awareness and unconsciousness.     13b.
Language usage promotes greater awareness and consciousness.
14a. Can lead to tunnel vision and bigotry.     14b. Can lead to
breadth of vision and understanding.
15a. Referenced studies conceal conflict-of-interest funding sources..
15b. Referenced studies reveal conflict-of-interest funding sources.
16a. Statistics always presented to show maximum damage from problem
and minimum damage from solution.     16b. Statistics presented to
show many aspects of problem, not always from a non-max/min approach.



Disease Care vs. Health Care

View Propaganda vs. Education Grid

Disease-Care
   

Health Care
17a. Emphasis on removing symptoms. Aims for quick results.     17b.
Emphasis on removing causes through knowledge and its integration into
living habits. Aims for long-term results.
18a. Emphasis on management and control. Professional "manages" while
patient "follows orders".     18b. Emphasis on patient participation
and recovery. Professionals "give guidelines" and patient directs his
own therapy.
19a. Assembly line methods geared for profit.     19b. Client-centered
methods geared for autonomy.
20a. Reliance on technological intervention and substitution, e.g.,
organ transplants, insulin injections, surgery, radiation,
chemotherapy, synthetic and frequently toxic drugs and vaccines.
Focuses on replacing organs or systems and their functions.     20b.
Reliance on harmless, noninvasive therapies and substances. Focuses on
regenerating organs and systems and restoring their function.
21a. Cost and dependency escalating.     21b. Cost and dependency
de-escalating.
22a. Disease and disability seen in terms of victimization and
melodrama.     22b. Disease and disability seen as preventable.
23a. Mechanistic: Body seen as mass object containing discrete parts.
23b. Organic: Body seen as mass under which lies energy, living
patterns and interacting fields.
24a. Fragmented: Body and mind treated separately. Parts of body
regarded separately and treated singly.     24b. HolisticL
Body-mind treated as unity. Parts of body treated in relation to other
parts and aspects of the body-mind.
25a. Atavistic: Disease seen as entity separate from patient.     25b.
Contemporary: Disease seen as process inseparable from patient.
26a. Adversarial: Disease seen as enemy.     26b. Unifying: Disease
seen as reflecting a self-corrective aspect of body-mind complex in
response to internal change in body environment.
27a. Externalizes Casuality: Focus is outside the patient: viruses,
bacteria, and stresses in the environment, while ignoring toxic
environmental factors in the food, water and air that may be grounds
for corporate litigation.     27b. Internalizes Casuality: Focus on
patient, choices, attitudes, habits, and reactions to environmental
influences.
28a. Disease Oriented: Focuses on labeling, controlling and destroying
disease entities. Research focuses on nature of condition as
represented by symptoms, not causes. Absence of disease seen as result
of technological intervention.     28b. Health Oriented: Focuses on
support of natural healing, immune system, and addresses causes of
conditions instead of symptoms. Absence of disease seen as by-product
of health.
29a. Uses military rhetoric: "building defenses", "fighting", "battle
against", etc.     29b. Descriptive language suggests harmony and
cooperation.
30a. Monolithic and coercive.     30b. Pluralistic, voluntary and
multi-optioned.
31a. Negative: Builds on fear and distrust of the natural world
(Darwinian Paradigm).     31b. Positive: Builds on cooperation with the
natural world. A system of healthcare.