I’m trying to solve the puzzle of promoting truth in health information in a materialistic world. I have a couple of really informative, altruistic websites that teach everything for free like Fertlility Help and Eczema Cure, and The Cure Library. Unfortunately, they bring in a paltry sum of visitors. Yes, they are helping people, but only the few lucky ones who stumble onto them by chance.
Then there are those very profitable lies and hopelessly inane health dis-information trotted around by majority of the websites on the internet. What the information technology of the 21st century exposes for all to see is how stupid most people and most of the establishment websites are when it comes to health and diseases because the great majority of the diseases are branded as INCUREABLE. Incureability raises the price tag for those branded diseases. Whole industries spring up. With profitability comes promotions, marketing. Which brings us to today’s predicament.
Information becomes popular, is promoted, is dispersed because there is a compelling driving force: Money. In the beginning at the root of the lies, the liers know they are lying and spreading false information, but as the disinformation trickles down to the henchmen, the lies become gospel truths. Ah marketing.
I tried promoting one of my websites to see what kind of competition awaits me. I see that marketing money flows to the places where there are most profits to be made. So a country with more moneyed people is targetted for marketing, for disinformation, for snake oil products.
I do not think the cheapest and most effective true cures are routinely suppressed, they’re just not promoted. No one is willing to pay to promote truth.
It is difficult to promote free and truthful information because you need money to promote. But since my website does not make money, how can I promote it in the first place? I put a donation section in my website but nobody has donated ever. Sure I’ve received letters and phone calls of thanks. I’ve gotten product discount offers. But no one has donated. So how can I promote truth?
Maybe you should think about that sometime. Maybe I should state that people make a donation so that we can market the website and inform more people. Say for every $10 you donate, 20 more people will be visiting the website you found so truthful and informative.
I need ideas people. Help me help the world.