{"id":40709,"date":"2020-05-15T17:05:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T23:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/?p=40709"},"modified":"2021-05-28T01:45:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T07:45:47","slug":"the-pandemic-of-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-pandemic-of-control\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pandemic of Control","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mark Mallett is a former television reporter with CTV Edmonton and award-winning documentarian and author of <\/em>The Final Confrontation<\/a> and <\/em>The Now Word<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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WHEN<\/strong> I was a television reporter in the late 1990’s, I broke one of the biggest stories that year\u2014or at least, I thought it would be. Dr. Stephen Genuis<\/a> had revealed that condoms did not <\/em>stop the spread of Human Papillomavirus (HPV), which can lead to cancer. At that time, HIV and AIDs were huge in the headlines as was the concerted effort to push condoms on teenagers. Aside from the moral dangers (which of course, everyone ignored), no one was aware of this new threat. Instead, widespread ad campaigns announced that condoms promised “safe sex.” <\/p>\n

I produced a two-part series on this revelation, excited to report on something that would actually make a difference. The night of the broadcast, I watched the news go by… then the weather… then the sports… then finally, when most of our viewers statistically were no longer watching, the HPV story. It was my first lesson on the shallowness and control of “the narrative” in the mainstream media\u2014a control that is costing lives. Today, some twenty years later, 79 million Americans, most in their late teens and early 20s, are now infected with HPV.[1]<\/sup><\/a>cdc.gov<\/a> ; According to the World Health Organization (WHO), one in 25 people in the world had an STD by 2016. \u2014medpagetoday.com<\/a> <\/span><\/span>