Children's Health Defense When a platform is treated globally as the first-stop authority for knowledge, and when that platform is structurally incapable of accountability, the corruption of its content becomes the corruption of public understanding. That corruption becomes policy. And in the realm of medicine and health, it becomes something far worse.
By Gary Null, Ph.D., and Richard Gale, Progressive Radio Network
“The problem is not that people don’t have access to information. The problem is that they have access to managed information — curated by anonymous power, insulated from accountability.”
The old dream of a universal library — and the new reality
Efforts to gather and preserve the world’s knowledge into a single self-contained resource have been a human endeavor for over 2,000 years. The oldest surviving encyclopedia was compiled by the Roman statesman Pliny the Elder during the 1st century and covered topics about natural history, architecture, medicine and geography.
The impulse behind this project was not merely archival. It was civilizational. It reflected an understanding that societies survive and flourish when accurate knowledge is preserved, curated and transmitted across generations.
By definition, and not dissimilar to modern conventional dictionaries, an authoritative encyclopedia is “researched and written by well-educated, well-informed content experts.”
Encyclopedia entries are “not written in order to convince, although one of its goals is indeed to convince its readers of its own veracity.” The factuality of a topic, in other words, is to be framed and understood within the culture, discipline, or science on its own grounds.
It is for this reason that people resort to encyclopedias for quick and concise referencing because of their reputation for objectivity and thoroughness.
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