News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Will Labour protect gender-confused children from the trans ideologues? Given its pledge of a "truly trans-inclusive" conversion therapy ban, the signs aren't looking good, says Clinical Psychologist Dr. Carole Sherwood.
The insidious growth of 'nudging' as a subtle means of controlling democratic populations is undermining our freedom in the West. But there's an important reason it cannot work for long, says Prof James Alexander.
Government psychological manipulation of the public has become normal in the U.K. in a trend consolidated during Covid. Dr Gary Sidley traces the roots of this illiberal movement.
In recent years, academic psychologists have turned to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to collect data. But according to a new study, the data from this online survey platform may be largely worthless.
The claims by Government Covid adviser Susan Michie that she never advocated use of fear to influence behaviour are contradicted by her published statements and papers, says Dr David Seedhouse.
Government advisers now falsely claim never to have supported pandemic fear messaging. Nonsense, says Laura Dodsworth, who kept the receipts and sets the record straight.
Dr Kirsty Miller was shocked to discover clinical psychologists sharing memes mocking their patients on social media. The problem, she argues, is the profession has been taken over by Critical Social Justice ideology.
Ever wondered why politicians seem so out of touch? Ben Pile explores how the flawed advice of behavioural scientists has been followed religiously by hyper-liberal leaders, fuelling populist movements worldwide.
Why is Western civilisation increasingly governed by people taken in by the latest shallow intellectual fads? Psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist has some convincing answers, says Dr. David McGrogan.
Carl Jung would not be surprised by how the West is destroying itself via the unconscious transformation of what is good into the opposite – a process he termed enantiodromia, says Dr Hugh Willbourn.
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