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| The report distinguishes between "Cognitive Warfare" and "Information Warfare", characterizing the latter as consisting of "electronic warfare, computer network operations, PsyOps, military deception, and operational security," aimed at "controlling the flow of information." Cognitive warfare, on the other hand, "degrades the capacity to know, produce or thwart knowledge. Cognitive sciences cover all the sciences that concern knowledge and its processes (psychology, linguistics, neurobiology, logic and more)." | The report distinguishes between "Cognitive Warfare" and "Information Warfare", characterizing the latter as consisting of "electronic warfare, computer network operations, PsyOps, military deception, and operational security," aimed at "controlling the flow of information." Cognitive warfare, on the other hand, "degrades the capacity to know, produce or thwart knowledge. Cognitive sciences cover all the sciences that concern knowledge and its processes (psychology, linguistics, neurobiology, logic and more)." |
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| As an example of cognitive warfare, the report references the "deliberately biased" [[Lancet]] study on [[covid-19:treatments:drug_therapies:chloroquine]] that came amongst "a massive amount of texts on the subject" which created an information and knowledge overload".[3][4] The result of this study was the mainstream dismissal of chloroquine and similar repurposed drugs, and this report seems to imply that it was an intentional tool of cognitive warfare in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's endorsement of hydroxychloroquine.[5] | As an example of cognitive warfare, the report references the "deliberately biased" [[Lancet]] study on [[covid-19:treatments:drug_therapies:chloroquine]] that came amongst "a massive amount of texts on the subject" which created an information and knowledge overload".((Mehra, M. R., Ruschitzka, F., & Patel, A. N. (2020). //Retraction—Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without a macrolide for treatment of COVID-19: a multinational registry analysis.// The Lancet, 395(10240), 1820. https://archive.ph/RxlBV)) ((Joseph, A. (2020, June 4). //Lancet, NEJM retract Covid-19 studies that sparked backlash.// STAT. https://archive.ph/o9K6k)) The result of this study was the mainstream dismissal of chloroquine and similar repurposed drugs, and this report seems to imply that it was an intentional tool of cognitive warfare in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's endorsement of hydroxychloroquine.((Cathey, L. (2020, August 9). //Timeline: Tracking Trump alongside scientific developments on hydroxychloroquine.// ABC News. Retrieved November 18, 2021, from https://archive.ph/sUMo1)) |
