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The Government’s “grossly unethical” uses of its “nudge unit” inflated fear among the public during the Covid pandemic, psychologists have said - prompting MPs to launch an investigation into scare adverts.
©Andrew Parsons/10 Downing Street Psychologists said the techniques used by the 'nudge unit' were questionable and designed to scare people into changing their minds - Andrew Parsons/10 Downing Street
A group of psychologists have written to Parliament’s Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee, warning that a team of civil servants dedicated to “nudging” public behaviour during the pandemic were unaccountable and unethical.
The letter’s 40 professional signatories - led by Dr Gary Sidley, a retired clinical psychologist - said they opposed the use of dramatic adverts, which included slogans such as: “If you go out you can spread it, people will die.”
They also condemned the use of “images of the acutely unwell in intensive care units” on billboard and television adverts, as well as the “macabre mono focus on showing the number of Covid-19 deaths without mention of mortality from other causes or the fact that, under normal circumstances, around 1,600 people die each day in the UK”.
©Provided by The Telegraph The use of 'images of the acutely unwell in intensive care units' on billboards was condemned - Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire
The signatories said it was “highly questionable whether a civilised society should knowingly increase the emotional discomfort of its citizens as a means of gaining their compliance”.
The letter added: “Government scientists deploying fear, shame and scapegoating to change minds is an ethically dubious practice that in some respects resembles the tactics used by totalitarian regimes such as China, where the state inflicts pain on a subset of its population in an attempt to eliminate beliefs and behaviour they perceive to be deviant.”
The Government’s “nudge unit” was established in the Cabinet Office in 2010 and is designed to apply behavioural science principles to public policy.
It has been used to encourage the public to pay their taxes, turn up in court and donate their organs when they die.
It is officially known as the “behavioural insights team”, but little is known about how it actually operates.
©Provided by The Telegraph What is the Downing Street ‘nudge unit’?
The unit was used to encourage compliance with coronavirus regulations during the pandemic.
One advert showed a close-up photo of an intensive care patient in a mask, with the caption: “Look her in the eyes and tell her you never bend the rules.”
Another said: “Look him in the eyes and tell him you always keep a safe distance”.
The letter drew attention to a government memo from March 2020, which suggested that “the perceived level of personal threat needs to be increased among those who are complacent” and called for more frightening messaging.
The Telegraph understands that Parliament’s Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee will investigate the use of the behavioural insights team as part of its investigation into the Government’s activities during the pandemic. It will coincide with the second anniversary of the first lockdown.
William Wragg, the committee’s chairman, said: “I think the central issue is how ‘nudge’ sits within parliamentary democracy and ministerial accountability.
“Normally, it's quite straightforward to know where lines of accountability are between the law, parliamentarians scrutinising the law and the public following it.
“And this is a wider question of how much, in a parliamentary democracy, sits outside of that approach.”
The psychologists also warned that “scare ads” have had unintended consequences.
“Shaming and scapegoating have emboldened some people to harass those unable or unwilling to wear a face covering,” they wrote.
“More disturbingly, the inflated fear levels will have significantly contributed to the many thousands of excess non-Covid deaths that have occurred in people’s homes, the strategically-increased anxieties discouraging many from seeking help for other illnesses.”
https://archive.is/KGKzJ
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Coronavirus 2019 - BoJo doesn't care about Saving Lives; not saying the UK government's slogan fully
https://www.bitchute.com/video/qC7ANme4T0h6
I uploaded this video exactly 1 year ago today. It would have been either on this very date, 28th Jan 2021, when it aired live, or I uploaded it the day after.
“highly questionable whether a civilised society should knowingly increase the emotional discomfort of its citizens as a means of gaining their compliance”.
Wait. Where have we heard, seen, experienced this before, many times, in numerous lives? Hmmm... Just a second, let me think... Oh, right. Ye. Of course - christianity. The same "leaders" of christianity = the same "leaders" of government.
"The Government’s “nudge unit” was established in the Cabinet Office in 2010 and is designed to apply behavioural science principles to public policy."
So there is a black sect, a secret, hidden, shadow council, as if we didn't know already, but one for changing public opinion forcefully - and in the media - and while this is happening, we have had the privilege of paying a TV "licence" fee for it? Hm. Everyone should cancel the TV "licence" payments.
"It is officially known as the “behavioural insights team”, but little is known about how it actually operates."
People should demand open doors and full accessibility to these "unit" offices and buildings, with video and sound recording equipment per each commoner visitor. Call it a physical form of a freedom of information reques-- demand.
This "nudge unit" is a hidden agenda to brainwash people to worship "god"-- sorry, I meant the jew-- sorry! I meant the government. (Who is the "govern"-ment governing? Itself? Who is the "govern"-'ment' to be governing?!) We need civil non-compliance.
These "small, clever prompts" sounds like some dogs teaching Pavlov to write in his little journal. Surely that's what it is... Either that or the "govern"ment is using business tactics and marketing strategies to force us to purchase the bullshit. I also question this "Unherd" - is that a mistype, or are we all sheep and cattle?!?!?!?! The state propaganda being sanctioned was certainly not an accident... sigh The use of psycho-nonsense continues, even in this fake-opposition to it.
I turned the brainwashing media off months ago. I hadn't been following it. While not watching and listening to it, I had heard only little about it - most people seem to get on with wearing masks when need-be (e.g. government/legal buildings, airports, working in work places, banks, hospitals/doctors, etc.) and complain about the mask and breathing; they seemed to have forgot about con-vid-19 (click the link). As with me not watching nor listening - I didn't know it was "now mandatory" to wear masks again in whichever whimsically-arbitrarily-chosen shops and areas. No-one seems to care very much, either.
You can tell who has had their 6 millionth booster jab - those who still wear masks everywhere, including outside and in their own(?) car. I have seen this. To be fair, they might have been just about to get out, or just had got in the car, but no-one else was in it. Also on Gogglebox last year or in 2020, the non-scripted (supposedly) real-life programme of you and me watching TV and being recorded while doing so, in one episode someone said that it became normal or usual to them, that they wear their mask without thinking. That was the point, obviously. Bleat, bleat, bleat. Mooooo.
©Andrew Parsons/10 Downing Street Psychologists said the techniques used by the 'nudge unit' were questionable and designed to scare people into changing their minds - Andrew Parsons/10 Downing Street
A group of psychologists have written to Parliament’s Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee, warning that a team of civil servants dedicated to “nudging” public behaviour during the pandemic were unaccountable and unethical.
The letter’s 40 professional signatories - led by Dr Gary Sidley, a retired clinical psychologist - said they opposed the use of dramatic adverts, which included slogans such as: “If you go out you can spread it, people will die.”
They also condemned the use of “images of the acutely unwell in intensive care units” on billboard and television adverts, as well as the “macabre mono focus on showing the number of Covid-19 deaths without mention of mortality from other causes or the fact that, under normal circumstances, around 1,600 people die each day in the UK”.
©Provided by The Telegraph The use of 'images of the acutely unwell in intensive care units' on billboards was condemned - Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire
The signatories said it was “highly questionable whether a civilised society should knowingly increase the emotional discomfort of its citizens as a means of gaining their compliance”.
The letter added: “Government scientists deploying fear, shame and scapegoating to change minds is an ethically dubious practice that in some respects resembles the tactics used by totalitarian regimes such as China, where the state inflicts pain on a subset of its population in an attempt to eliminate beliefs and behaviour they perceive to be deviant.”
The Government’s “nudge unit” was established in the Cabinet Office in 2010 and is designed to apply behavioural science principles to public policy.
It has been used to encourage the public to pay their taxes, turn up in court and donate their organs when they die.
It is officially known as the “behavioural insights team”, but little is known about how it actually operates.
©Provided by The Telegraph What is the Downing Street ‘nudge unit’?
The unit was used to encourage compliance with coronavirus regulations during the pandemic.
One advert showed a close-up photo of an intensive care patient in a mask, with the caption: “Look her in the eyes and tell her you never bend the rules.”
Another said: “Look him in the eyes and tell him you always keep a safe distance”.
The letter drew attention to a government memo from March 2020, which suggested that “the perceived level of personal threat needs to be increased among those who are complacent” and called for more frightening messaging.
The Telegraph understands that Parliament’s Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee will investigate the use of the behavioural insights team as part of its investigation into the Government’s activities during the pandemic. It will coincide with the second anniversary of the first lockdown.
William Wragg, the committee’s chairman, said: “I think the central issue is how ‘nudge’ sits within parliamentary democracy and ministerial accountability.
“Normally, it's quite straightforward to know where lines of accountability are between the law, parliamentarians scrutinising the law and the public following it.
“And this is a wider question of how much, in a parliamentary democracy, sits outside of that approach.”
The psychologists also warned that “scare ads” have had unintended consequences.
“Shaming and scapegoating have emboldened some people to harass those unable or unwilling to wear a face covering,” they wrote.
“More disturbingly, the inflated fear levels will have significantly contributed to the many thousands of excess non-Covid deaths that have occurred in people’s homes, the strategically-increased anxieties discouraging many from seeking help for other illnesses.”
https://archive.is/KGKzJ
We are not "allowed" to have free speech on this article. Comments have been disabled. Convenient.
Coronavirus 2019 - BoJo doesn't care about Saving Lives; not saying the UK government's slogan fully
https://www.bitchute.com/video/qC7ANme4T0h6
I uploaded this video exactly 1 year ago today. It would have been either on this very date, 28th Jan 2021, when it aired live, or I uploaded it the day after.
“highly questionable whether a civilised society should knowingly increase the emotional discomfort of its citizens as a means of gaining their compliance”.
Wait. Where have we heard, seen, experienced this before, many times, in numerous lives? Hmmm... Just a second, let me think... Oh, right. Ye. Of course - christianity. The same "leaders" of christianity = the same "leaders" of government.
"The Government’s “nudge unit” was established in the Cabinet Office in 2010 and is designed to apply behavioural science principles to public policy."
So there is a black sect, a secret, hidden, shadow council, as if we didn't know already, but one for changing public opinion forcefully - and in the media - and while this is happening, we have had the privilege of paying a TV "licence" fee for it? Hm. Everyone should cancel the TV "licence" payments.
"It is officially known as the “behavioural insights team”, but little is known about how it actually operates."
People should demand open doors and full accessibility to these "unit" offices and buildings, with video and sound recording equipment per each commoner visitor. Call it a physical form of a freedom of information reques-- demand.
This "nudge unit" is a hidden agenda to brainwash people to worship "god"-- sorry, I meant the jew-- sorry! I meant the government. (Who is the "govern"-ment governing? Itself? Who is the "govern"-'ment' to be governing?!) We need civil non-compliance.
These "small, clever prompts" sounds like some dogs teaching Pavlov to write in his little journal. Surely that's what it is... Either that or the "govern"ment is using business tactics and marketing strategies to force us to purchase the bullshit. I also question this "Unherd" - is that a mistype, or are we all sheep and cattle?!?!?!?! The state propaganda being sanctioned was certainly not an accident... sigh The use of psycho-nonsense continues, even in this fake-opposition to it.
I turned the brainwashing media off months ago. I hadn't been following it. While not watching and listening to it, I had heard only little about it - most people seem to get on with wearing masks when need-be (e.g. government/legal buildings, airports, working in work places, banks, hospitals/doctors, etc.) and complain about the mask and breathing; they seemed to have forgot about con-vid-19 (click the link). As with me not watching nor listening - I didn't know it was "now mandatory" to wear masks again in whichever whimsically-arbitrarily-chosen shops and areas. No-one seems to care very much, either.
You can tell who has had their 6 millionth booster jab - those who still wear masks everywhere, including outside and in their own(?) car. I have seen this. To be fair, they might have been just about to get out, or just had got in the car, but no-one else was in it. Also on Gogglebox last year or in 2020, the non-scripted (supposedly) real-life programme of you and me watching TV and being recorded while doing so, in one episode someone said that it became normal or usual to them, that they wear their mask without thinking. That was the point, obviously. Bleat, bleat, bleat. Mooooo.
