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Q15: Should you trust everything you are told?<br />
realized and put to test. In 1938, Orson Welles unleashed<br />
a propaganda campaign about a “mass hysteria” caused by<br />
radio broadcasts of HG Wells' novel "War Of The<br />
<strong>World</strong>s." People who heard the broadcast knew that it<br />
was from the novel. Although some rumours spread<br />
quickly and frantic calls were made to news organizations,<br />
there was really no mass hysteria. Even the Press learned<br />
about the hysteria from Orson Welles at his press<br />
conference. And, the hoax trans<strong>for</strong>med itself as fact and<br />
now it is part of "history."<br />
Orson Welles' stunt was not the first of its kind nor the<br />
last. There are countless myths big and small that have<br />
been embedded into our collective consciousness. In fact,<br />
we are being buffeted by myths every day.<br />
In his 1928 book Icarus or the Fall of Science, Bertrand<br />
Russell (a Rothschild apologist <strong>for</strong> totalitarianism) noted<br />
that:<br />
… The effects of psychology on practical life may<br />
in time become very great. Already advertisers in<br />
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