Pre internet, people could not spread confidently wrong opions globally, but connected and well connected people could. Take a look at the wave after wave of po

Pre internet, people could not spread confidently wrong opions globally, but connected and well connected people could. Take a look at the wave after wave of popular, and misleading non fiction books printed last century, or the "scientific" food pyramid, or the testimony of nurse Nariya. On and on it goes, as it has, only now, anyone can play.