An octogenarian in diapers is centrally planning 330M people’s health care with disastrous results…

Many citizens like it

Cheer it on

Even argue for more

Not because it is rational but because they need their tribe to form their identity.

Insecurity induced Munchausen’s.
2 months later the editorial board at PNAS published this letter of concern over the questionable ethics in the Facebook study.

https://www.pnas.org/content/111/29/10779.1
Of course, this was back when informed consent meant something …

Or is it when we lost the plot?

Note the emphasis on being able to opt out.

Will they ever read their own words and snap out of the octogenarian spell?
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