Results from a recent study suggest a convenient scapegoat is the main cause of today's problems, and that this trend is likely to continue. Speaking earlier one researcher claimed “We fed the most up to date data into our models and the results are clear. In 95% of cases a convenient scapegoat is responsible”
These results are likely to re-ignite the so-called Convenient Scapegoat-gate controversy of last year, and have been already greeted with complaints from self styled “convenient scapegoat sceptics”. One, who preferred not to be named, claimed this survey was just a “convenient scapegoat” hiding the real truth. They continued "cause and effect are much more difficult to ascribe to events than simple, headline grabbing scare stories about overweight, drug addled, kids, dying, either of heart attacks brought on by climate change, or being murdered by perverts trawling the internet for their next victim. All they do is present a superficial reading of reality, editorialised to the point of the nonsensical, which frames the debate in such a simplistic fashion, that any attempt to solve the problem, as defined by the headlines, is doomed to failure. There's always more to a problem than the catchy sloganeering would have you believe."
A leading expert on convenient scapegoating, condemned this view. They claimed “Yeah they're right, but for god sake, they should have kept quiet for the common good. The second people realise the problems of big bad world can't be reduced to a pithy headline, or resolved with just an equally snappy campaign slogan, then that's us done. Our salad days, when we could hobnob with rock stars, appear on Newsnight, or knock out 500 word articles with inconsequential admonishments and some hand-wringing, for "The Observer's" Sunday magazine about how changing your brand of washing-up liquid can make a difference, will be over."
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