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   * [[https://www.thepressandthepublic.com/post/perspectives-on-the-pandemic-xviii|Aug 4, 2021]] Professor [[:Mark Crispen Miller]]: A Propaganda Masterpiece, Part Two
   * [[https://rokfin.com/post/52304|Episode #22]] Professor [[:Mark Crispen Miller]] at [[:Unlimited Hangout]]'s [[:Whitney Webb]] at the [[:Propaganda in the COVID Era]] podcast.
+What we don’t know is killing us: The urgency of propaganda study under COVID
+May 24, 2022 - Professor [[:Mark Crispen Miller]] ((https://propagandainfocus.com/what-we-dont-know-is-killing-us-the-urgency-of-propaganda-study-under-covid/))
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   * [[:COVID-19 pandemic:propaganda:Natural Immunity Fails]]
   * [[:COVID-19 pandemic:propaganda:Pandemic of the unvaccinated]]
+  * [[:COVID-19 pandemic:propaganda:Vaccine Confession Through Projection]]
 ==== Confirmation of Propaganda Campaigns ====
-Both the governments of [[:Canada]] and the [[:United Kingdom]] have admitted using psychological tactics to control policy perceptions during the pandemic.((Jan 4, 2022 | [[:ZeroHedge]] | Governments Admit Using 'Mass Formation Psychosis' As Tool of Population Control | https://www.zerohedge.com/political/governments-admit-using-mass-formation-psychosis-tool-population-control))
+Both the governments of [[:Canada]] and the [[:United Kingdom]] have admitted using psychological tactics to control policy perceptions during the pandemic.((Jan 4, 2022 | [[:ZeroHedge]] | Governments Admit Using 'Mass Formation Psychosis' As Tool of Population Control ((https://www.zerohedge.com/political/governments-admit-using-mass-formation-psychosis-tool-population-control))
 "Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response" was published on April 30, 2020, by Bavel, Baicker et al.((https://web.archive.org/web/20210329054744/https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-0884-z)) The abstract opens by saying;
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 The freedom of information (FOI) request politely asked the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to supply the number of deaths solely caused Covid-19, where Covid-19 was the only cause of death listed on the death certificate.((https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/01/20/ons-admits-just-6k-covid-deaths-since-feb-20/)) ((https://web.archive.org/web/20220120235546/https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/01/20/ons-admits-just-6k-covid-deaths-since-feb-20/))
-***NOTE - Expose link has great charts to add as images
+NOTE - Expose link has great charts to add as images
 FOI Ref- FOI/2021/3240 ((https://web.archive.org/web/20220115012416/https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/freedomofinformationfoi/deathsfromcovid19withnootherunderlyingcauses?s=09))
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 ==== Social Media Influencers ====
-  * [[https://thegrayzone.com/2021/12/24/leaked-files-syria-psyops-astroturfing-breadtube-covid/| Dec 24, 2021]] [[:The Grayzone]] British intelligence hired veteran astroturfing [[:YouTube]] personalities to counter critics of [[:COVID-19 public health policy]] implementation suck as [[:COVID-19 public health policy:lockdowns]].
+  * ((https://thegrayzone.com/2021/12/24/leaked-files-syria-psyops-astroturfing-breadtube-covid/| Dec 24, 2021)) [[:The Grayzone]] British intelligence hired veteran astroturfing [[:YouTube]] personalities to counter critics of [[COVID-19 public health policy]] implementation suck as [[COVID-19 public health policy:lockdowns]].
-  * Tim Pool discussion: https://www.bitchute.com/video/KZOpULZPJfQ/
+  * Tim Pool discussion- ((https://www.bitchute.com/video/KZOpULZPJfQ/))
 ==== Behavioral Psychology ====
-In a letter from the HART Group, dated January 18, 2022, they call out the [[Behavioral Insights Team]] for Ethical concerns arising from the Government’s use of covert psychological ‘nudges’((January 20, 2022 | HART Group | [[https://www.hartgroup.org/ethical-concerns-arising-from-the-governments-use-of-covert-psychological-nudges/|Ethical concerns arising from the Government’s use of covert psychological ‘nudges’]]))
+In a letter from the HART Group, dated January 18, 2022, they call out the [[Behavioral Insights Team]] for Ethical concerns arising from the Government’s use of covert psychological ‘nudges’((January 20, 2022 | HART Group | ((https://www.hartgroup.org/ethical-concerns-arising-from-the-governments-use-of-covert-psychological-nudges/))|Ethical concerns arising from the Government’s use of covert psychological ‘nudges’
 === Asch Conformity ===
+https://youtu.be/TYIh4MkcfJA
-[[https://youtu.be/TYIh4MkcfJA]]
-===The Origins of the American Public Education System===
-[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZp7eVJNJuw]]
+===Montage of narrative spinning===
+https://twitter.com/jamesmelville/status/1461750873445568515?s=21
-===Montage of narrative spinning===
-[[https://twitter.com/jamesmelville/status/1461750873445568515?s=21]]
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 === Coordinated Messages in Social Media ===
-  * [[https://twitter.com/profnfenton/status/1474378421149052933?s=20|Dec 24, 2021]] Professor [[Norman Fenton]] documents many instances of nearly identical messages by [[:twitter:blue check marks]] from searching for "verified tested positive symptoms mild".
+  * ((https://twitter.com/profnfenton/status/1474378421149052933?s=20|Dec 24, 2021)) Professor [[:Norman Fenton]] documents many instances of nearly identical messages by twitter- blue check marks from searching for "verified tested positive symptoms mild".
   * On Dec 25, Twitter user Joost Broekers points out templated fear porn claims of emergency rooms getting crushed by COVID-19.((Joost Broekers | Dec 25, 2021 | https://twitter.com/JoostBroekers/status/1474771068825083909))
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   * In January 2022, public health officials including [[:anthony_fauci|Anthony Fauci]] and [[Kieran Moore]] admitted pediatric COVID-19 hospitalizations were being systematically over-counted.((Viva Frei. (2022, January 5). //The “Covid Count” Narrative is Being Changed in REAL TIME - Viva Frei Vlawg.// YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74dBUOZyK70))
+  * On Apr 15, 2022, Proximal Origins paper author [[:Kristian Andersen]] was retweeted by scores of crypto/NFT Twitter accounts.((April 22, 2022 | Mareno Colaiacovo | [[:Twitter]] | [[https://twitter.com/emmecola/status/1517870943774851073?s=20&t=zhjNbli9ipWbwLNSO-kESw]]))
 === Denigrating Opposition Without Discussion ===
   * Dec 11, 2021 [[https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1469845677270351872|Australian Prime Minister refers to vaccinating people like herding sheep through a gate]]
+=== Bribing the Opposition ===
+  * Dr. [[:Paul Alexander]] reports being offered $1 million plus salary to stop "hammering" Pfizer.((March 21, 2021 | Paul Alexander | [[https://palexander.substack.com/p/pfizer-offered-me-1-million-and-50000?s=r|Pfizer offered me $1 million & $50,000 month wage; was this to stop writing & hammering them/Bourla?; I have had limited patchy broken income due to being cancelled, smeared; I said NO!]]))
 ==== Fear Porn ====
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 More recently, in Crisis and Leviathan, the American economic historian Robert Biggs identified ‘the ratchet effect’, pointing to the temporary or emergency measures put in place by the US government during or following WWI, the Great Depression, WWII, the Nixon-Johnson years, 9/11 and the 2008 global financial crisis, all caused the government to expand, and many survive to this day. Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government measure.
-In the UK, this sort of manipulation initially took the form of the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) who report into Number 10 and the Prime Minister. Their formation was first suggested in 2010, and in 2018, they released a report called 'Behavioural Government: Using Behavioural Science to Improve How Governments Make Decisions'(([[https://www.bi.team/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/BIT-Behavioural-Government-Report-2018.pdf | Behavioural Government: Using Behavioural Science to Improve How Governments Make Decisions]])) and another, more pertinent to what we’re seeing today, called 'Applying Behavioural and Social Sciences to Improving Population Health & Wellbeing in England'(([[https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/744672/Improving_Peoples_Health_Behavioural_Strategy.pdf | Applying Behavioural and Social Sciences to Improving Population Health & Wellbeing in England]])).
+In the UK, this sort of manipulation initially took the form of the [[:Behavioural Insights Team]] (BIT) who report into Number 10 and the Prime Minister. Their formation was first suggested in 2010, and in 2018, they released a report called 'Behavioural Government: Using Behavioural Science to Improve How Governments Make Decisions'(([[https://www.bi.team/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/BIT-Behavioural-Government-Report-2018.pdf | Behavioural Government: Using Behavioural Science to Improve How Governments Make Decisions]])) and another, more pertinent to what we’re seeing today, called 'Applying Behavioural and Social Sciences to Improving Population Health & Wellbeing in England'(([[https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/744672/Improving_Peoples_Health_Behavioural_Strategy.pdf | Applying Behavioural and Social Sciences to Improving Population Health & Wellbeing in England]])).
 On March 11, 2020, David Halpern, who heads up BIT, actually said we should cocoon the elderly until herd immunity is acquired, which sounds as sensible today as it did then. However, on March 22, a BIT sub-group, the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviour (SPI-B) stated that,
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 Fear of Terrorist Attack Could Trigger Mass Psychogenic Illness
-[[U//FOUO]] A case of mass psychogenic illness in Chechnya in 2005 and a similar incident in California in 2003 highlight an additional factor to consider in the response to terrorist attacks, particularly those involving chemical, biological, or radiological [[CBR]] weapons. The number of those suffering psychogenic illness could far exceed the number of actual casualties in a CBR event.
+[[U//FOUO]] A case of mass psychogenic illness in Chechnya in 2005 and a similar incident in California in 2003 highlight an additional factor to consider in the response to terrorist attacks, particularly those involving chemical, biological, or radiological [[CBR]] weapons. The number of those suffering psychogenic illness could far exceed the number of actual casualties in a CBR event.((https://file.wikileaks.org/file/dhs-mass-psychogenic-illness-2006.pdf))
-https://file.wikileaks.org/file/dhs-mass-psychogenic-illness-2006.pdf
+[[Mass Formation]] is a term coined by Mattias Desmet, Ph.D. Mass Formation, according to Dr. Desmet requires an element of fear, which can be driven by propaganda. Dr. Robert Malone linked this concept to a form of mass psychosis in his [[https://open.spotify.com/episode/3SCsueX2bZdbEzRtKOCEyT|interview with Joe Rogan in December 2020.]]  John Mac Ghlionn wrote an ((https://spectatorworld.com/topic/america-state-mass-formation-paralysis/|opinion piece for Spectator World)) in which he described the phenomenon as more of a psychological paralysis induced by the media.  He suggests, "But when it comes to the pandemic, and the ways in which we have come to view the dangers posed, mainstream media outlets have played a more significant role. Through the weaponization of fear, millions of Americans have been conditioned to fear the worst."
-[[Mass Formation]] is a term coined by Mattias Desmet, Ph.D. Mass Formation, according to Dr. Desmet requires an element of fear, which can be driven by propaganda. Dr. Robert Malone linked this concept to a form of mass psychosis in his [[https://open.spotify.com/episode/3SCsueX2bZdbEzRtKOCEyT|interview with Joe Rogan in December 2020.]]  John Mac Ghlionn wrote an [[https://spectatorworld.com/topic/america-state-mass-formation-paralysis/|opinion piece for Spectator World]] in which he described the phenomenon as more of a psychological paralysis induced by the media.  He suggests, "But when it comes to the pandemic, and the ways in which we have come to view the dangers posed, mainstream media outlets have played a more significant role. Through the weaponization of fear, millions of Americans have been conditioned to fear the worst."
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 The TNI is already working together to tackle to spread of harmful coronavirus disinformation and previously has had success running a rapid alert system during the UK 2019 General Election, Myanmar and Taiwan 2020 General Elections and the US Presidential Election.
-The Trusted News Initiative (TNI) was set up last year to protect audiences and users from disinformation, particularly around moments of jeopardy, such as elections. The TNI complements existing programmes partners have in place.
+The [[:Trusted News Initiative]] (TNI) was set up last year to protect audiences and users from disinformation, particularly around moments of jeopardy, such as elections. The TNI complements existing programmes partners have in place.
-The partners currently within the TNI are: AP, AFP; BBC, CBC/Radio-Canada, European Broadcasting Union (EBU),Facebook, Financial Times, First Draft, Google/YouTube, The Hindu, Microsoft , Reuters, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Twitter, The Washington Post."
+The partners currently within the TNI are: AP, AFP; BBC, CBC/Radio-Canada, European Broadcasting Union (EBU),Facebook, Financial Times, First Draft, Google/YouTube, The Hindu, Microsoft , Reuters, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Twitter, The Washington Post."((https://web.archive.org/web/20201210102555/https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2020/trusted-news-initiative-vaccine-disinformation))
-https://web.archive.org/web/20201210102555/https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2020/trusted-news-initiative-vaccine-disinformation
+PANDA - What is the Trusted News Initiative? Odysee video short
+((https://odysee.com/@VSRF:d/Vaccine-Safety-Research-Foundation-TNI:e))
-==== Bill Gates Media Funding ====
+==== Washington Post TNI Nudge Strategies ====
-While other billionaires’ media empires are relatively well known, the extent to which Gates’s cash underwrites the modern media landscape is not. After sorting through over 30,000 individual grants, MintPress can reveal that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) has made over $300 million worth of donations to fund media projects.((Nov 15, 2021 | Mint Press News | [[https://www.mintpressnews.com/documents-show-bill-gates-has-given-319-million-to-media-outlets/278943/|Revealed: Documents Show Bill Gates Has Given $319 Million to Media Outlets]]))
-Recipients of this cash include many of America’s most important news outlets, including CNN, NBC, NPR, PBS and The Atlantic. Gates also sponsors a myriad of influential foreign organizations, including the BBC, The Guardian, The Financial Times and The Daily Telegraph in the United Kingdom; prominent European newspapers such as Le Monde (France), Der Spiegel (Germany) and El País (Spain); as well as big global broadcasters like Al-Jazeera.
+How to talk to vaccine-hesitant friends and family about getting the shot
-The Gates Foundation money going towards media programs has been split up into a number of sections, presented in descending numerical order, and includes a link to the relevant grant on the organization’s website.
+Washington Post By Derek Hawkins  August 17, 2021
-Awards Directly to Media Outlets -
+The **vaccines are proven safe** and are more widely available than ever, but countless Americans still find themselves in the same position as Giese, struggling to convince vaccine-hesitant loved ones of the importance of getting immunized. They feel like they’ve done everything in their power to protect themselves and their communities during the pandemic, only to see the virus resurge and vaccine resistance harden.
-NPR- $24,663,066
+A July Washington Post-ABC News poll found that 29 percent of Americans said they are unlikely to get vaccinated, up from 24 percent in April. Millions of people are still avoiding the shots or rejecting them outright, offering more pathways for the spread of the highly transmissible variant.
-The Guardian (including TheGuardian.org)- $12,951,391
-Cascade Public Media – $10,895,016
-Public Radio International (PRI.org/TheWorld.org)- $7,719,113
-The Conversation- $6,664,271
-Univision- $5,924,043
-Der Spiegel (Germany)- $5,437,294
-Project Syndicate- $5,280,186
-Education Week – $4,898,240
-WETA- $4,529,400
-NBCUniversal Media- $4,373,500
-Nation Media Group (Kenya) – $4,073,194
-Le Monde (France)- $4,014,512
-Bhekisisa (South Africa) – $3,990,182
-El País – $3,968,184
-BBC- $3,668,657
-CNN- $3,600,000
-KCET- $3,520,703
-Population Communications International (population.org) – $3,500,000
-The Daily Telegraph – $3,446,801
-Chalkbeat – $2,672,491
-The Education Post- $2,639,193
-Rockhopper Productions (U.K.) – $2,480,392
-Corporation for Public Broadcasting – $2,430,949
-UpWorthy – $2,339,023
-Financial Times – $2,309,845
-The 74 Media- $2,275,344
-Texas Tribune- $2,317,163
-Punch (Nigeria) – $2,175,675
-News Deeply – $1,612,122
-The Atlantic- $1,403,453
-Minnesota Public Radio- $1,290,898
-YR Media- $1,125,000
-The New Humanitarian- $1,046,457
-Sheger FM (Ethiopia) – $1,004,600
-Al-Jazeera- $1,000,000
-ProPublica- $1,000,000
-Crosscut Public Media – $810,000
-Grist Magazine- $750,000
-Kurzgesagt – $570,000
-Educational Broadcasting Corp – $506,504
-Classical 98.1 – $500,000
-PBS – $499,997
-Gannett – $499,651
-Mail and Guardian (South Africa)- $492,974
-Inside Higher Ed.- $439,910
-BusinessDay (Nigeria) – $416,900
-Medium.com – $412,000
-Nutopia- $350,000
-Independent Television Broadcasting Inc. – $300,000
-Independent Television Service, Inc. – $300,000
-Caixin Media (China) – $250,000
-Pacific News Service – $225,000
-National Journal – $220,638
-Chronicle of Higher Education – $149,994
-Belle and Wissell, Co. $100,000
-Media Trust – $100,000
-New York Public Radio – $77,290
-KUOW – Puget Sound Public Radio – $5,310
+But experts say there’s still plenty of room to reach friends and family who have held out on getting vaccinated — it just might take closer listening, a refined message and more patience.
+Tailor your message
+Behavioral scientists, psychologists and marketing specialists who study vaccine uptake tend to divide the hesitant into a few general groups, all with a degree of overlap. One group is the apathetic, those who view the shots as an inconvenience or unnecessary given their circumstances. Another includes people who are skeptical of the medical science behind the shots or wary of their safety. A third is made up of people who refuse the shots for political or ideological reasons. ((https://web.archive.org/web/20211218092041/https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/07/24/how-talk-vaccine-hesitant-friends-family-about-getting-shot/))
+==== Bill Gates Media Funding ====
+While other billionaires’ media empires are relatively well known, the extent to which Gates’s cash underwrites the modern media landscape is not. After sorting through over 30,000 individual grants, [[MintPressNews]] can reveal that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) has made over $300 million worth of donations to fund media projects.((Nov 15, 2021 | Mint Press News | https://www.mintpressnews.com/documents-show-bill-gates-has-given-319-million-to-media-outlets/278943/|Revealed: Documents Show Bill Gates Has Given $319 Million to Media Outlets))
+Recipients of this cash include many of America’s most important news outlets, including CNN, NBC, NPR, PBS and The Atlantic. Gates also sponsors a myriad of influential foreign organizations, including the BBC, The Guardian, The Financial Times and The Daily Telegraph in the United Kingdom; prominent European newspapers such as Le Monde (France), Der Spiegel (Germany) and El País (Spain); as well as big global broadcasters like Al-Jazeera.
+The Gates Foundation money going towards media programs has been split up into a number of sections, presented in descending numerical order, and includes a link to the relevant grant on the organization’s website.
+  * Awards Directly to Media Outlets -
+  *
+  * NPR- $24,663,066
+  * The Guardian (including TheGuardian.org)- $12,951,391
+  * Cascade Public Media – $10,895,016
+  * Public Radio International (PRI.org/TheWorld.org)- $7,719,113
+  * The Conversation- $6,664,271
+  * Univision- $5,924,043
+  * Der Spiegel (Germany)- $5,437,294
+  * Project Syndicate- $5,280,186
+  * Education Week – $4,898,240
+  * WETA- $4,529,400
+  * NBCUniversal Media- $4,373,500
+  * Nation Media Group (Kenya) – $4,073,194
+  * Le Monde (France)- $4,014,512
+  * Bhekisisa (South Africa) – $3,990,182
+  * El País – $3,968,184
+  * BBC- $3,668,657
+  * CNN- $3,600,000
+  * KCET- $3,520,703
+  * Population Communications International (population.org) – $3,500,000
+  * The Daily Telegraph – $3,446,801
+  * Chalkbeat – $2,672,491
+  * The Education Post- $2,639,193
+  * Rockhopper Productions (U.K.) – $2,480,392
+  * Corporation for Public Broadcasting – $2,430,949
+  * UpWorthy – $2,339,023
+  * Financial Times – $2,309,845
+  * The 74 Media- $2,275,344
+  * Texas Tribune- $2,317,163
+  * Punch (Nigeria) – $2,175,675
+  * News Deeply – $1,612,122
+  * The Atlantic- $1,403,453
+  * Minnesota Public Radio- $1,290,898
+  * YR Media- $1,125,000
+  * The New Humanitarian- $1,046,457
+  * Sheger FM (Ethiopia) – $1,004,600
+  * Al-Jazeera- $1,000,000
+  * ProPublica- $1,000,000
+  * Crosscut Public Media – $810,000
+  * Grist Magazine- $750,000
+  * Kurzgesagt – $570,000
+  * Educational Broadcasting Corp – $506,504
+  * Classical 98.1 – $500,000
+  * PBS – $499,997
+  * Gannett – $499,651
+  * Mail and Guardian (South Africa)- $492,974
+  * Inside Higher Ed.- $439,910
+  * BusinessDay (Nigeria) – $416,900
+  * Medium.com – $412,000
+  * Nutopia- $350,000
+  * Independent Television Broadcasting Inc. – $300,000
+  * Independent Television Service, Inc. – $300,000
+  * Caixin Media (China) – $250,000
+  * Pacific News Service – $225,000
+  * National Journal – $220,638
+  * Chronicle of Higher Education – $149,994
+  * Belle and Wissell, Co. $100,000
+  * Media Trust – $100,000
+  * New York Public Radio – $77,290
+  * KUOW – Puget Sound Public Radio – $5,310
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 ==== Manipulation of Trust ====
-There's an old documentary film about political operatives title "Our Brand Is Doubt" this strategic thinking is applied to a wide variety of PR operations.
+There's an old documentary film about political operatives titled "Our Brand Is Doubt" this strategic thinking is applied to a wide variety of PR operations and credited to Big Tobacco at its best..
+== The ‘Science’ of Manipulation: Researchers Craft Messages of Guilt, Shame to Foster Vaccine Compliance ===
+There’s an entire field of research dedicated to developing messaging designed to persuade “vaccine-hesitant” individuals to get the COVID-19 vaccine — and none of it has anything to do with facts.
+Childrens Health Defense By Ann Tomoko Rosen - Feb 4, 2022
+There’s an entire field of research dedicated to developing messaging designed to persuade “vaccine-hesitant” individuals to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
+None of the messaging examined by researchers involves conveying factual evidence that supports the claims — widely disseminated by Big Pharma, Big Media and public health agencies — that the vaccines are “safe” and “effective.”
+Researchers last month published the results of a clinical trial involving two survey experiments on how to [[manufacture consent]] for COVID vaccines.
+The Yale-sponsored study, “Persuasive messaging to increase COVID-19 vaccine uptake intentions,” examined how different persuasive messages affected 1) intentions to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, 2) willingness to persuade friends and relatives to get the vaccine, 3) fear of those who have not been vaccinated, and 4) social judgment of people who choose not to vaccinate.
+Overall, it was a message that appealed to community interest, reciprocity and a sense of embarrassment that proved most persuasive, resulting in a 30% increase in intention to vaccinate, a 24% increase in willingness to advise a friend to get vaccinated and a 38% increase in negative opinions of people who decline the vaccines relative to the placebo message.
+Community interest messages that incorporate embarrassment were determined to be most effective in getting people to encourage others to get the vaccine, while “not brave” messaging showed the most promise in creating negative judgments of non-vaccinators.
+The Yale study findings are consistent with another recent paper, “Vaccination as a Social Contract,” which demonstrated people view vaccination as a social contract and are less willing to cooperate with those who refuse vaccination.(( https://web.archive.org/web/20220208052132/https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/b17350e8-d3ed-3b64-bc50-6384438134eb/ | Yale study Vax as Social Contract))
+[[Saad Omer]], one of the authors of the Yale study, has an extensive interest in public health messaging.
+His efforts to combat vaccine hesitancy earned him a spot on the [[World Health Organization]]’s (WHO) Strategic Advisory Group of Experts working Group on COVID-19 Vaccines, the [[Sabine Vaccine Institute]]’s Board of Trustees and the WHO’s [[Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety]].
+In 2020, Omer initiated a “Building Vaccine Confidence Through Tailored Messaging Campaigns” project involving randomized trials in five countries using social media messaging to increase COVID and childhood vaccine coverage.
+In his keynote address at the first WHO Global [[Infodemiology Conference]] in June 2020, Omer referenced “moral foundation theory” and suggested appealing to values could change decision-making behaviors.
+Omer provided details about a messaging study for the [[HPV vaccine]] and discussed how similar strategies could be applied to create compliance for COVID measures.
+In February 2021, the [[University of Pennsylvania]] newsletter, Penn Today, published, “When the Message Matters, Use Science to Craft It,” covering behavioral scientist [[Jessica Fishman]]’s Message Effects Lab (MEL) initiative and research related to “what sways decision-making,” particularly with regard to COVID vaccination and testing.
+MEL currently has partnerships and ongoing projects with the World Bank, the National Institutes of Health, the CDC, Penn Medicine, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Independence [[Blue Cross/Blue Shield]] and the [[Government of Canad]]a to address health-related behaviors.
+The [[Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality]], a branch of HHS, also sponsored research to explore influences on COVID vaccine decision-making. The study, “Attitudes Toward a Potential SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine A Survey of U.S. Adults,”
+Behavioral scientist Dr. [[Rupali Limaye]] took the messaging a step further. She teaches a free online training course, offered by [[Johns Hopkins]] University, that “prepares parents of school-age children, PTAs, community members and school staff to be [[Vaccine Ambassadors]] and promote vaccine acceptance in their communities.”
+Limaye will be a panelist for an interactive webinar “Making COVID-19 vaccines APPEALing- Pilot message testing in India,” later this month.
+Research from Civics Analytics, a technology company that creates data-driven audience campaigns, seconds the notion that effective messaging must evolve.
+With funding from the [[Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]], the company explored COVID concerns among different demographics and determined that a “one-size-fits-all” message would not work. The company said:
+“In the spring of 2021, before the Delta variant emerged in the U.S. and when vaccine mandates had not yet been implemented, we found that messages highlighting experiences that are off-limits to unvaccinated individuals (such as concerts or international travel) or emphasizing personal choice were most persuasive…
+“As you’ll see in this research, the most persuasive messages have changed.”
+According to [[Civics Analytics]], FOMO (fear of missing out) and “personal decision” messages were the most impactful. But more current data indicates the “protecting children” message has become more effective at persuading people to get vaccinated. ((https://web.archive.org/web/20211222151248/https://www.civisanalytics.com/vaccine-intelligence-center/vaccine-message-test-summer-2021/))
+((https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/manipulation-guilt-shame-vaccine-compliance/))
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   * Mar 23, 2021 [[:Foundation for Economic Education]]: Americans are wildly misinformed about the risk of hospitalization from COVID-19, survey shows. ((Mar 23, 2021 | [[:Foundation for Economic Education]] | [[https://fee.org/articles/americans-are-wildly-misinformed-about-the-risk-of-hospitalization-from-covid-19-survey-shows-here-s-why/|Americans Are Wildly Misinformed about the Risk of Hospitalization from COVID-19, Survey Shows. Here’s Why]]))
+==== New York Times Attack on Dr. Robert Malone ====
+Regarding the recent NYT article concerning myself #1
+"The Latest Covid Misinformation Star Says He Invented the Vaccines"
+Substack April 8, 2022 by Robert W Malone MD, MS
+This will the the first of two stubstack articles that I will be sending out today regarding the NYT article recently authored by [[:Davey Alba]]. Ms. Alba, previously from Buzz Feed News, apparently has left the New York Times to work for Bloomberg, but previously the NYT described her desk and portfolio as “technology reporter covering disinformation and all of its tentacles”. ((https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/regarding-the-recent-nyt-article?s=r))((https://web.archive.org/web/20220407194850/https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/regarding-the-recent-nyt-article?s=r))
+=== NYT Experts Cited ===
+Dr. [[:Alastair McAlpine]] told me that the coronavirus vaccines are “the result of hundreds of scientists all over the world.
+Dr. [[:Angela Rasmussen]], a virologist at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization at the University of Saskatchewan also told me that some of your statements have exploited “the fact that data-driven course correction is inherent to the scientific process to spread disinformation.”
+Dr. [[:Gyula Acsadi]], MD (Pediatrician) The idea that he is the inventor of mRNA vaccines is “a totally false claim,” Dr. Gyula Acsadi told me
+==== Commentary Dr. Malone Attack ====
+Dr. Robert Malone let NYT reporter [[:Davey Alba]] into his home; Dr. Malone has now found out he actually let Medusa, Delilah, and Clytemnestra all in one, into his home; next time, be careful Sir!
+Substack by Dr. Paul Alexander April 8, 2022
+This is the issue, these people are all cut from the same cloth, venomous, invective, poisonous, petty, they live miserable ‘little’ lives, sorry lives, DC lives, its all they know, I met several in DC. All they do is hurt good people yet get their rocks off on that.
+I wish Ms. Alba well in life and hope one day she can write honestly and not allow her hatreds and venom and politics blind her. She must be a great person, likely exceptional. Just lost. Wandering in the wilderness of Trump hatred and likely anger having fallen for the shots. Bought into the COVID lies. She knows she was lied to and may have long term health problems…they all do. I have some in my own families. I hurt for them for the anguish is now cutting.((https://web.archive.org/web/20220408030746/https://palexander.substack.com/p/dr-robert-malone-let-nyt-reporter?s=r))
+==== Anti-Vaxx as the Enemy ====
+{{ :covid-19_pandemic:sorryantivaxer_website.png?600|}}
+Celebrating deaths and denial of medical treatments for anyone who refused COVID jabs. ((https://web.archive.org/web/20220201105604/https://www.sorryantivaxxer.com/))