Fighting a lost battle

Adam “The Sports Physio” Meakins, shared with a gif of Jeff Golblum approaching “one big pile of shit” in Jurassic Park:

The amounts and levels of healthcare misinformation on [social media] are growing exponentially! It used to be rare and a few usual suspects! Now it’s common and everyone’s doing it! 🤦‍

Fighting misinformation felt like a losing battle for the last twenty years … and then we lost. The list of ways in which it’s clear that we lost is quite long, but RFK Jr. getting real power over American healthcare is one of the most obvious examples.

There was no definitive moment of loss, but the misinformation apocalypse has followed a “gradually and then suddenly” pattern. Speaking of apocalypse, Brennen “The SkeptVet” McKenzie replied with this poetic, ominous, and apt selection (which is what made this shareworthy):

True, but… “The central pillar of that theory [of courage] was Ragnarök — the day when gods and men would fight evil and...inevitably be defeated. Its great statement was that defeat is no refutation. The right side remains right even if it has no ultimate hope at all.”