Once you put a piece of information out into the world,
true or not, it stirs around forever. Years can go by and someone can come
across it and it will start to kick u dust again. A now discredited doctor made
up data that suggested a link between certain childhood vaccines and autism.
Now there is a large and growing anti-vaccine movement. That all comes from an
initial lie. The things most people think they know about Dylan Klebold and
Eric Harris and their motivation for shooting up their high school in
Littleton, Colorado, are based on initially flawed reporting and bad
information. Those untruths continue to be the commonly held truth. The list
can go on and on. To some extent, Thomas Vinterberg’s affecting drama, The Hunt is based on exactly that
phenomenon on a microcosmic level.
