A great way to misinform is to use actual data, but twist it around. This is totally not new, happens all the time and will keep happening because it works. Its effectiveness lies in that there’s an original source, even a highly trusted one, that has put effort into some semblance of the correct information. Then it’s taken out of context, subtly altered or just plain outright manipulated to produce something not in the original work.
This isn’t starting off about that last one. Focusing on how the data was turned against the actual meaning. Deliberately, most likely, misconstruing the data to reach the most favorable view. A knowledgeable person can dive into the world of statistics and see how it was done. But when presented on the fly to a susceptible (closed minded) audience, it’s not so easy to convince them that they’re being tricked. Not showing the part of the data that debunks your own argument, cherry picking the results, is a big no-no. And it would never pass muster on a scientific peer review process.
A shorter analogy than that whole linked story, imagine a lawyer defending a murderer. He may correctly state that the murder weapon was found in a third party’s home next door, someone else under suspicion. But failure to mention that the defendant’s DNA and fingerprints are on the knife and not the third party is cherry picking. In our legal system that’s fine. It’s up to the other lawyer to point the cherry picking out. But who knows the outcome for sure when reasonable doubt enters the question.
Gematria is designed for cherry picking. As soon as someone would be involved in a legal issue that had “evidence” from gematria it would be dismissed immediately. There’s a rich history of gematria being nothing more than fluff to fill space. Our legal issue above, mentioning the murder weapon is a flamethrower and not a knife. Preposterous. Gematria surrounding any small number that could mean a zillion other things. Even more preposterous.
In the bigger picture, gematria serves as a distraction and supporting misinformation for other misinformation. You can tell by the gematria stories that are chosen to be covered and their source that other non gematria misinformation is likely to be present. There aren’t gematria stories about finding numbers that show Homey is a fraud. There aren’t gematria stories about Joe Biden being a competent president. There aren’t gematria stories about cryptocurrency being a bad idea to be involved with because of the extreme volatility. Thanks to Alex Jones style disinformation the norm these days is to counter the story with some version of accurate information with a lot of hot air.
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