TL;DR: How Your Opinion Is Being Manufactured (And You Likely Don't Even Know It)

The Hidden Weapon Shaping What You Think

Ever wonder why "expert consensus" always seems to emerge on controversial topics? There's a 70-year-old technique called the Delphi method that was originally created by military researchers to predict the future—but it's now being used as a sophisticated weapon to manufacture fake agreement and control what you believe.

What Is the Delphi Method? (The Basics)

Think of it as a rigged survey system:

• Step 1: Carefully select "experts" (but you don't know who they are or their biases)

• Step 2: Ask them questions anonymously across multiple rounds

• Step 3: Show each round's results to influence the next round

• Step 4: Keep going until everyone "agrees"

• Step 5: Present this manufactured consensus as scientific truth

The problem? The people running it control who counts as an "expert" and what information gets shared between rounds. It's like a magic trick where the outcome is predetermined.

How It Became a Weapon