The article " I know the truth, so don't bother me with fact" by Jeffrey Kluger explains why people are being emphatic to believe in gossip rather than facts. There was a new study done on people at Ohio State University by R.Kelly Gavrett and Erick N. who came to two conclusions, that it's easy to manipulate people's beliefs and that people won't change their mind even if evidence were presented to them. I agree with their conclusion about people believing more in gossip and flat-out lies instead of believing and learning the real facts. In my opinion most people don't want to put more effort into to learning facts they just take the easy way out and believe what they are told even if there is no evidence supporting the fact.
Many of us watch daily news on t.v or read a daily newspaper. Everyday they present to us new data about crimes, accidents, politics, weather and much more. If anything happens anywhere at anytime reporters are there collecting facts write their new article to be posted the very next day. Isn't everything they said true? Should we believe it? How did it really happen? We don't know, but we can collect our own evidence, read it over again and think once again. For example, few weeks ago an accident occurred not far from my house. I heard police, ambulance, fire department driving in rush one after another to save someones life. I had no idea what happened, until I went outside and got startled how something like this can take place in school zone early in the morning where children are walking to school. I asked myself why would a man drive into sidewalk and run over five people including four children. Everyone was willing to help anyway they could, and later the people were taken to the hospital. The culprit was identified in the newspaper, he said that he got confused with pedals and the reporters believed him. How can you get confused with the pedals, didn't the reporters investigate to find out the truth? That makes no sense, I think if someone is to drive a car he should be focused on the road rather than his cellphone. In my opinion he was on his cell phone and he just lost control over the vehicle which swerved on sidewalk.
Every year is a new season of flu and with it everyone is getting crazy to protect themselves against it. I had seen on television advertisement that informed that everyone should be vaccinated. Every year all major pharmacies offers new seasonal flu vaccinations. Most people strongly believe in vaccines and what they supposedly do to help us. We are told that we have to immunize ourselves with that, but they have no facts or proof that in fact they help us. Medias and physician advise us to take it but they don't give us more information about it for example if they are safe for us , what they cause and what they are made from, and also the most important if they destroy our immune system. Thats our decision to make if I should take it or not. You should do your own research about it, find out the real facts. I know my best, I am not manipulated and I will never change my mind about it.
I think my given examples will support my ideas about peoples different beliefs. Always we should be open mind to all the information given to us. We should have our own opinion, always stand for it and make our own decisions in life. We cant let others to control our mind and influence the decisions we make about what to think say or what to believe.
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