Chapter 5: Facts Can Save Your Life

In Chapter 5: Facts Can Save Your Life, the section titled 'Selling False Hope' was particularly disturbing.  The point of this chapter was that getting facts wrong can cost you money, get you in trouble with the law, or even take your life.  The story of the cancer patient so desperate to beat the disease was terrible.  Any person who would take advantage of a person fighting cancer is absolutely despicable and deserves severe punishment.  It is devastating that people are so desperate that they will do virtually anything to cheat death.  Anything that claims it has a '100 percent cure rate for bone cancer' is simply lying.  Furthermore, clues seemed to be present everywhere that this product was not going to be positively effective.  

Being misinformed consistently ruins lives.  Teens put their health at risk by getting facts wrong about sex.  By assuming that everyone is doing it, teens feel pressure to keep up with their peers. STDS are contracted and seem to be so common these days, which is extremely terrifying.  If teens and college students got their facts straight about what others are actually doing then they might feel less pressured to have sex.  Unwanted pregnancies are more and more common.  These days, each of my friends know at least one person who has gotten pregnant at a young age.  It is a true statement that facts can save lives.