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Misinformation: It’s Rampant on the Internet
Today, my husband and I had a three-hour drive stretching out in front of us. He is the driver. Since I can read, type on my computer, and look at my phone during our travels, I don’t drive as much. As he puts it, since he cannot do all those other things, he might as well drive. He admits that he’s a little jealous. And I feel a little guilty. But, it’s how it works for us.
I go through periods of being very agitated by what I see on the internet’s social media sites. For example, today, there was a post on a naturalist page that set me off. I belong to some nature groups on Facebook. As I’ve written before, I think gardeners can be some of the rudest people around. They are so obstinant and firm in their (mostly) uninformed postings. It drives me nuts!
Back to the Post That Set Me Off
I was scrolling on my FaceBook feed when I saw a post on a naturalist page that showed six caterpillars on a piece of paper toweling and explained how they saw these “things” on their herb garden plants (specific herb not mentioned) and picked them off. The poster’s question was, “what are they?”
What?! I mean, WHAT????
Okay, let’s get this straight. You pick some insects off your herbs because you didn’t know what they were? You didn’t know whether they were…
