Sound familiar?

This is what they have done and are doing to smokers.

Righteous indignation is not enough,we need our own propaganda machine to fight fire with fire!!

http://weightoftheevidence.blogspot.com/2007/06/only-fi...anda-will-solve.html

Only the Finest Propaganda will Solve Childhood Obesity
Now that the nation has begun to realize the significant health, psychological and societal costs of an unhealthy weight, it is time to re-examine its way of thinking and revise the social norms that are now accepted."
The 'best practices' to be employed in a national campaign to address childhood obesity:

Community-wide campaigns
School-based initiatives
Mass media strategies
Laws and regulations
Provider reminder systems
Reduce costs to patients
Home visits

The list includes elements of both formal planned interventions and recognized cultural and social factors. Detailed too are the necessary elements to convince the population at large there is a problem that requires drastic measures:

A persuasive science base documenting a socially and scientifically credible threat
A supportive partnership with the media
Strategic leadership and a prominent champion
A diverse constituency of highly effective advocates
Enabling and reinforcing laws, regulations and policies

Notice above, the critically important factors are not solid evidence, but persuation, packaging the message for the media to propogate to the public, repeat the message through advocates and champions, and regulating laws and policies to conform to the pursuasive messages.

That's not science, that's carefully orchestrated propaganda.

"Propaganda is the deliberate, systematic attempt to shape perceptions, manipulate cognitions, and direct behavior to achieve a response that furthers the desired intent of the propagandist." Source: Garth S. Jowett and Victoria O'Donnell, Propaganda And Persuasion, 4th edition, 2006

This is what public health experts intend to do to our children.

Sounds eerily similar to a man named Adolph Hitler 70 years ago........