It doesn't matter to the brainwashed if you point this out. Many have direct memories of these scares. They know these things didn't happen. It still doesn't wake them up.
They also predicted in the 60s that the human population was growing so fast there would not be enough food to support us by this point. That didn't come true at all. Do we even really know what the human population is? The DS has done so much to drive it down. How do we know they're not fudging the numbers just to scare people into being afraid to have too many children?
It doesn't matter to the brainwashed if you point this out. Many have direct memories of these scares. They know these things didn't happen. It still doesn't wake them up.
They also predicted in the 60s that the human population was growing so fast there would not be enough food to support us by this point. That didn't come true at all. Do we even really know what the human population is? The DS has done so much to drive it down. How do we know they're not fudging the numbers just to scare people into being afraid to have too many children?