In the latest incident of academic cancel culture, a respected psychologist was forced to resign after he published criticism of a black colleague's work. 1,300 academics signed an open letter calling him "racist".
An article in the journal Nature has praised the use of covert psychological strategies, aka propaganda, to induce compliance during the Covid pandemic and called for a redoubling next time. Why?
Boris, Hancock, Whitty and the rest who drove the lockdowns will never admit they were wrong as it would be psychologically devastating for them. But in time the world will silently resolve the measures were mistaken.
During the last two years, the Government and SAGE subjected us to a deliberate attempt to generate massive levels of societal anxiety, and this will turn out to be a major health problem in the years ahead.
Long Covid joins a long list of syndromes "without clinical explanation", leading to questions of what really lies behind it and to what extent it is actually psychogenic or sociogenic.
The Government’s “grossly unethical” uses of its "nudge unit" stoked fear among the public during the pandemic, psychologists have said – prompting MPs to launch an investigation into the Government's Covid propaganda.
The psychologist Joseph Manson analysed data on a sample of Americans from April of 2020. He found that both right and left-wing authoritarianism predicted support for lockdowns and other restrictions.
Laura Dodsworth has written a good piece in which she argues that the threat of lockdown "hangs like a Sword of Damocles", 'nudging' us into courses of action we wouldn't otherwise take.
We're publishing a guest post on the Daily Sceptic by a clinical psychologist who is unhappy about the fact that the regulator hasn't followed up his complaint against a member of the Govt's Behavioural Insights Team.
The U.K. Government’s latest attempt to satiate Boris Johnson’s multiple, complex and apparently chronic penetrative insemination paraphilias will involve the private sector in bribing young people with discounted takeaway food and free taxi rides. Food delivery and taxi-hailing firms including Uber, Bolt, Deliveroo and Pizza Pilgrims have all been enrolled in this latest psychiatric intervention and are now offering incentives for young people to arouse the Prime Minister’s husband by receiving what he’s taken to referring to during Cabinet meetings as “the pharmaceutical boys’ ejaculate". "How many disease vectors have the pharmaceutical boys ejaculated into this week?" he'll ask excitedly, often several times a minute, the words oozing up and out of that capricious little slit in his head like smarmy treacle, mellifluous and full of privilege. As you might imagine, the BBC got themselves pretty hot and horny about this, the policy’s underlying mix of messianic, full-throttle welfarism and Old Testament-style retributive psychopathy touching a sweet spot for the munificent totalitarians over at New Broadcasting House. Not that they were able to get off as many superlatives as they'd have liked. True, manipulation of the young is as essential to the BBC as it is to every other elite western institution currently waging war on that dangerous, socially harmful pathogen known as "cognitive diversity" – sorry, I mean "Covid misinformation". But unlike, say, the Guardian, Independent SAGE ...
