Now get THIS:
Berger posed the question: how did this cultural shift come about? Berger put the onus on the rise of the New Knowledge Class of intellectuals, professionals, paraprofessionals, therapists, clinicians, technocrats together with the mainstream media. The Knowledge Class was seeking a way to shame those in the rival Business Class to gain power over the culture, and with it, funding for government research, therapies and social status sinecures. The Knowledge Class even went as far as claiming scientific support for banning public smoking based on mere correlation studies that lacked validation and corroboration. Berger pointed out at that time, the studies that seemed to show that smoking was related to lung cancer intentionally omitted studies that proved otherwise.
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Kinda makes you think, don't it, eh?
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