Your Brain: The Information Filter

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Health information is being HEAVILY manipulated. This is a fact. How do I know this?? I pay attention. For the last several years, there have been several shifts in how search engines respond to your queries. Have you noticed? Even though I put forth intently focused searches, and any algorithm monitoring my preferences would give me ONLY wholistic health information, western bias is always in the forefront of what is presented, and sometimes it's false or misconstrued! This is frustrating.

BUT, it's not hopeless. I am prepared. If there is information I gain that I don't want to lose, I PRINT IT OUT. I know what sources I trust, and the ONLY source I trust for truth is the Holy Ghost. I love what Peggy Hal, The Healthy American once said and I'll paraphrase: There is no such thing as misinformation. There is only information. And you get to decide for yourself what is true and what isn't.

It takes effort to put in the work to be able to know when someone is trying to dupe us or sway us to one direction or the other.

BUT WE ARE WORTH THE EFFORT. OUR FAMILIES ARE WORTH THE EFFORT.

So, as you search for health information, I invite you to be a little bit cynical. Why? Because that helps protect you from deception. Cynicism is not good or bad. It's neutral. And you can use it as a tool as you filter through information that really is controlled.

Hopefully this article helps someone. It was just kind of pressing on my mind this morning after coming across some heavily biased and false health information last night that was listed at the top of my search results.