Episode 24: Bags of Germs

v.3 Updated 2021-10-19

If you were to listen only to the mainstream media, you might draw the conclusion that most (if not all) experts agree that COVID-19 is going to continue to rampage the earth unless strict lockdown procedures are implemented. In this episode we draw attention to a growing number of preeminent epidemiologists, researchers and public health professionals who are vehemently voicing an alternative view, noting that the pandemic is not as bad as it's made out to be, and that popular countermeasures such as lockdowns and masking are having disastrous side effects. Yet these experts are being almost universally suppressed by the the mainstream media, governmental authorities and big tech. We discuss various propaganda techniques that are being used to skew people's perception of expert opinion, including the use of the head-counting fallacy, the appeal to unspecified experts technique, the marginalization of dissenting experts technique, the coordinated propaganda technique, the selective enforcement technique and, of course, fear (the gift that keeps on giving!). Why is there this coordinated blackout of views that are contrary to the accepted COVID narrative?

Episode Timeline & Notes

0:02:53 - Suppression of Contradictory Information

• Biden-supporter Dr. Naomi Wolf highlights the politicization of medicine following vaccine news

Tactics discussed in this episode:

• The head-counting fallacy
• The appeal to unspecified experts
• The marginalization of dissenting experts
• The coordinated propaganda tactic
• The selective enforcement tactic
• The fear tactic

0:03:46 - Example 1: Dr. Scott Atlas Censorship

• BANNED!!! YouTube | Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson | The Doctor Is In: Scott Atlas and the Efficacy of Lockdowns, Social Distancing, and Closings
  • UPDATE: Reposted on September 28, 2020 (see note to viewers in the description detailing the disclaimer required by YouTube censors)
  • YouTube | Hoover Institution | The Doctor Is In: Scott Atlas and the Efficacy of Lockdowns, Social Distancing, and Closings
• YouTube | September 23, 2020 - President Trump Holds a News Conference - 6 p.m.

0:23:19 - Example 2: The Great Barrington Declaration by

• gbdeclaration.org
• gbdeclaration.org/#read
• YouTube | UnHerd | Dissenting scientists issue Covid-19 herd immunity declaration

0:30:28 - Negative Effects of Lockdowns

• Cambridge.org | Concepts in Disaster Medicine | Public health Lessons Learned From Biases in Coronavirus Mortality Overestimation
• Frontiers in Psychology | For the Greater Good? The Devastating Ripple Effects of the Covid-19 Crisis
• JAMA Internal Medicine | The Mental Health Consequences of COVID-19 and Physical Distancing
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