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couple vocabulary words that might apply to ME/CFS

Sorry really sick today so not going to add much commentary.

I can't read very much, so no doubt many of you are much more informed than I am! I just pick up bits and pieces of info from articles or videos, and do my best to, sort through what I perceive to be the bogons in the process then, post them. :eek:)

A good term I learned yesterday was "cognitive dissonence". It is a staple of the skeptics community.

"Cognitive dissonance is the mental conflict that people experience when they are presented with evidence that their beliefs or assumptions are wrong.

I learned it in a video yesterday about 911. It was a term used by psyhoclogists to why people can't believe that the trade center buildings were a controlled demolition, even after a number of engineers and scientists have provided piles of evidence supporting the fact the world trade cneters are probably a controlled demolition.

20 minute interview with psychologists on cognitive dissonence regarding events on 911.

http://www.youtube.com/user/ae911truth?feature=mhum#p/u/0/trfCyvLAQd8


Another useful term to understand CFS history and why our governments don't seem to want to help save lives.

useful idiots:
Term invented in Soviet Russia to describe people who blindly supported the likes of Lenin and Stalin while they committed atrocity after atrocity.

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Interesting one mark - cognitive dissonance - a model I learned from my Psychology module at University - and does not apply to us !
 

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