No worries at all. It is one thing for someone to be a true believer however misled, but I am convinced from looking into this that Rath knows damn well what he is doing and is playing the piper for something far worse than mere greed. The trouble is, he is also damn good at it and manages to feed many folk exactly what they want to hear.
Everyone loves to be in on 'how the world really works' TM.
And as far as I can tell, the military-entertainment-pharma-tourism-complex, or whatever it is this week, is hardly doing itself many favours in not making people in the poorer bits of the world utterly paranoid and suspect everything of being some massive trick. I mean, people there have to put up with repeated nestle marketing campaigns to discourage breastfeeding when there's fuck-all clean water[1]. At least here in the UK they just try to addict us to sugar and drugs instead.
And that's not in some old colonial past, that kind of shit happens today. I mean, when you have stuff like the CIA faking an immunisation program in Pakistan to sample for DNA[2] while looking for Ernst Stavro Blofeld or whatever, then no wonder some people believe in Mattias Rath. And their fear makes him a lot of money.
Everyone loves to be in on 'how the world really works' TM.
And as far as I can tell, the military-entertainment-pharma-tourism-complex, or whatever it is this week, is hardly doing itself many favours in not making people in the poorer bits of the world utterly paranoid and suspect everything of being some massive trick. I mean, people there have to put up with repeated nestle marketing campaigns to discourage breastfeeding when there's fuck-all clean water[1]. At least here in the UK they just try to addict us to sugar and drugs instead.
And that's not in some old colonial past, that kind of shit happens today. I mean, when you have stuff like the CIA faking an immunisation program in Pakistan to sample for DNA[2] while looking for Ernst Stavro Blofeld or whatever, then no wonder some people believe in Mattias Rath. And their fear makes him a lot of money.
[1] still going on in 2011 - http://www.irinnews.org/Report/93040/LAOS-NGOs-flay-Nestl%C3...
[2] http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/05/pakistan-polio-fak...
[edit] Oh, and I'd completely agree that Mbeki & Msimang do appear to be completely and utterly cynical power-crazy bastards.