False Facts

Combating false facts can be exhausting, frustrating, and often feels futile! It is hard to imagine how much effort is put into convincing all of us that what is not true, must be true.

For many years I laughed at the conspiracy theorists, simply dismissing them as entertainment. Before I knew it they had well know accepted facts replaced with lies, truth buried under faith, and people believing false versions of history. It didn’t start with false narratives, but it grew into them to promote certain versions and political ideas.

People have lost all notion of truth and science. Part of that is because we had false science that promoted ideas that were proven untrue, but the science community lost the public in the mess. Science works on the premise of proof, repetition of results, and all evidence must fit the theory. Anything else is theater or faith, not science. All the scientific evidence points to a warming climate. All scientific evidence points to evolution of life on our planet.

Rewriting history is easy when so few people were paying attention the first time. With so much knowledge at our fingertips it is still easy to pass off a lie about the past. Politicians find that especially convenient to justify whatever actions they want to do now.

Become a fact checker. Use all our technology to find out what is true. You will be amazed at how much false information is given as fact.

On the other hand, I love fiction, the land of make believe, but I try not to confuse it with reality. As I see it, that is our current challenge. We all have to find a way to sort fiction from fact and find out what is really happening. Because I don’t know about you, but I am tired of being spoon fed lies.

In all my books there is an understanding that false information can take on a life of its own and it can grow into something much more powerful, allowing deceptions to flourish. To combat that kind of twisted thinking, expose the truth.