What metrics are scientists using to decide what is totalitarian? Why are scientists being asked and not political theorists?
You can tell by a title that something is going to be proper batshit.
Pretty shocking from the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviour (SPI-B) about the tactics they used.
Just look at the government adverts. Trying to scare at every occasion.
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One SPI-B scientist told Ms Dodsworth: “In March [2020] the Government was very worried about compliance and they thought people wouldn’t want to be locked down.
“There were discussions about fear being needed to encourage compliance, and decisions were made about how to ramp up the fear. The way we have used fear is dystopian.
“The use of fear has definitely been ethically questionable. It’s been like a weird experiment. Ultimately, it backfired because people became too scared.”
Another SPI-B member said: “You could call psychology ‘mind control’. That’s what we do… clearly we try and go about it in a positive way, but it has been used nefariously in the past.”
One member of the committee warned that “people use the pandemic to grab power and drive through things that wouldn’t happen otherwise… We have to be very careful about the authoritarianism that is creeping in”.
Another admitted: “Without a vaccine, psychology is your main weapon… Psychology has had a really good epidemic, actually.”
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Another member of SPI-B said they were "stunned by the weaponisation of behavioural psychology" during the pandemic, and that “psychologists didn’t seem to notice when it stopped being altruistic and became manipulative. They have too much power and it intoxicates them”."
