09-25-2014, 05:35 PM
I too followed that same facebook page until earlier this year and agree that the very very popular page is driven by a passion for sharing scientific details in a humorous way. I un followed the page (and it may have been for this very reason) when I detected a subtle propaganda heading on one of their posts, reading "Seeing a lot of this lately".
Suddenly the otherwise exuberant and humorous text was missing and I smelt politics. I have a nack for chucking the baby out with the bath water however so have probably missed many smile causing posts since.
"Where nature creates a problem, nature provides a solution". - Dr Leonard Coldwell.
My personal experience is limited to this.
I was building a garden wall and a recently retired neighbour would routinely walk by in the morning after buying his newspaper. We began chatting (I was mainly listening) and he told me about how he was a senior employee for a large pharmaceutical company in London (30+ years). He also mentioned a particular incident in which he was exposed to a serious chemical and was immediately taken to some royal hospital. He said he needed a triple heart bypass and was "looked after". He also pointed to his 2 nearly new cars in his driveway that he had purchased from the funds raised by selling the company shares given to him as a retirement gift. He finished that particular discussion by mentioning the same company was now getting into vaccinations in a big way as "there is a lot of money in it, you know".
Suddenly the otherwise exuberant and humorous text was missing and I smelt politics. I have a nack for chucking the baby out with the bath water however so have probably missed many smile causing posts since.
"Where nature creates a problem, nature provides a solution". - Dr Leonard Coldwell.
My personal experience is limited to this.
I was building a garden wall and a recently retired neighbour would routinely walk by in the morning after buying his newspaper. We began chatting (I was mainly listening) and he told me about how he was a senior employee for a large pharmaceutical company in London (30+ years). He also mentioned a particular incident in which he was exposed to a serious chemical and was immediately taken to some royal hospital. He said he needed a triple heart bypass and was "looked after". He also pointed to his 2 nearly new cars in his driveway that he had purchased from the funds raised by selling the company shares given to him as a retirement gift. He finished that particular discussion by mentioning the same company was now getting into vaccinations in a big way as "there is a lot of money in it, you know".