Yikes.

Yeah, my former friend was also told that it was from "drinking." Scapegoat -- they will NEVER examine the idea that the shot could have caused it. This woman did/does have *severe* anxiety issues (said "anxiety" being, I think, a primary product of lifestyle). I'm certain that the anxiety didn't help, but the correlation between shot --> arrhythmia is difficult to ignore -- particularly given the sheer quantity of cases.

"I feel like I'm showing them green grass and they're all parroting some line that the grass is pink."

My best friend (different friend, obviously) and I were just discussing this the other day. I don't talk to people at all, really, but she does, and she said that she's been coming across this problem a lot lately. She will lay out an argument -- slowly, rationally, in a step-wise fashion -- and then, at the end, the other person will say, "Well, but X" -- reverting back to the "Party Line" as if she'd never said a word. We were discussing the concept of NPCs.

Again, I don't really talk to people, so I haven't observed this phenomenon myself, but I might have to start. I am curious.