hannah onlinemastodon getting mainstream coverage has been such an intense demonstration of that effect where you only realize that the news is completely, outrageously wrong about the most basic shit when it talks about something you're actually familiar with
aeva@prehensile "Are YOUR CHILDREN buying FENTANYL from TRANSEXUALS on THE DARK WEB?!?! Tune in at 8 to find out more about Mastodon, the next big moral panic!"
Half-baked@aeva @prehensile Is this common food giving you CANCER??? A study found that this food DECTUPLES your rate of cancer!
(if you eat a stupid amount of it)
(and the risk was like 0.1% instead of 0.01%)
In other news, thing shown to treat serious condition!
(in mice/isolated cells under very specific lab conditions)
(this was small-scale and has not been replicated yet)