Censorship and Defamation: Weapons of Control

 In a stunning article published in the academic journal “Minerva,” the mainstream academic publisher Springer has allowed truth to be spoken about the Pfizer mRNA vaccine adverse effects and how they hid many of the key findings regarding the drug’s harmful effects on the human body.

Censorship and Suppression of COVID-19

• Heterodoxy: Tactics and Counter-Tactics, Yaffa Shir-Raz, Ety Elisha. Natti Ronel, Josh Guetzkow, Accepted: 28 September 2022, Published online: 01 November 2022
• Having personally lived through what may be among the most intensive slander, defamation and derision campaigns of the COVID crisis, none of what was described in this article surprised me.
• However, seeing it written out in dry academic style and published like a case series study of global corporate, organizational and governmental psychopathology and greed is another thing altogether.

Summary of Terrorism Threat to the U.S. Homeland

• The United States remains in a heightened threat environment fueled by several factors: an online environment filled with false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories, and other forms of mis- dis- and mal-information (MDM) introduced and/or amplified by foreign and domestic threat actors.
• Key factors contributing to the current heightened threat include: the proliferation of false/ misleading narratives, which sow discord or undermine public trust in US government institutions, and COVID-19 mitigation measures used by domestic violent extremists to justify violence since 2020.

Silencing Dissent: Censoring and Suppressing Tactics

• Tactics of censorship and suppression described by our respondents include exclusion, derogatory labelling, hostile comments and threatening statements by the media, both mainstream and social; dismissal by the respondents' employers; official inquiries; revocation of medical licenses; lawsuits; and retraction of scientific papers after publication.
• Most of the respondents reported being censored on social media networks (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, YouTube, Google, LinkedIn), and said some of their posts, tweets, videos or accounts were taken down by the networks.

Counter-reaction: Fighting Back

• Respondents' counter-reactions were expressed in several ways: a desire to disclose the act of censorship and the information that was censored, which they claim is evidence-based; use of alternative channels in order to spread their positions and views in relation to COVID-19 publicly; establishment of support networks with colleagues; and development of alternative medical and health information systems.

Discussion

• The censorship tactics reported by our respondents are consistent with those identified in Jansen and Martin’s (2015) framework on the dynamics of censorship, including: Cover-Up, Devaluation, Reinterpretation, and Official Channels
• All of these tactics were intended to intimidate and deter respondents from continuing to publish their views and criticism.

Why didn’t more physicians stand up and object?

• Because the entire profession has been subjected to the most aggressive and coordinated propaganda, censorship, and defamation campaign the modern Western world has ever seen.

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