For most people reality is what they are told in sound bytes on the tube - including "just ask your doctor" commercials and such, and, for those who still bother to read, in the filtered news they get in their papers and magazines. Just keep your eyes on the tube, keep drinking your flouridated water and eating your GMO foods - and don't mind those micro-wave towers - and all will be well, or what isn't well will be what WE tell you.