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The American Psychological Association Wants (More) Federal Funding To Curb Online “Misinformation”

By Didi Rankovic | Reclaim The Net | January 9, 2024

The American Psychological Association (APA) is among those organizations enlisted to join the “war on misinformation” back in 2021, when APA took a $2 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to help push the Covid narratives of the time.

APA’s particular task there was to come up with “a scientific consensus statement on the science of misinformation.”

Now, APA is clamoring for even more federal money as it declares psychology to be “leading the way on fighting misinformation” and advertises psychologists as the right people to research the problem (as it has been presented over the last years), and also be “part of the solution.”

An article on APA’s site doesn’t shy away from using terminology that spreads a sense of alarm, such as “the scourge of misinformation” and asserting that clinicians now have to treat patients “subsumed” by conspiracy theories, while institutions and communities are all allegedly suffering unspecified “harm.”

And APA also doesn’t shy away from mentioning the US presidential election, or from positioning that event as something that makes combating misinformation “messier and more important than ever.”

Messy it is, alright. To position itself properly among all those vying for funding/influence by exaggerating the threat posed by misinformation as a new phenomenon, APA actually states that, with the election in mind, fighting misinformation is “one of the top trends facing the field (physiology) in 2024.”

Really, APA? Maybe the author meant – a top trend faced by the organization itself, since it has had to show something in return for the $2 million 2021 CDC grant given to it to research “the science of stopping misinformation.”

(Spoiler: that “science” is already well-developed and applied; it’s called censorship.)

Beside the general alarmist tone, APA also came up with “recommendations.”

First, shut up – “don’t repeat misinformation.” Next, leverage “trusted sources to share accurate information.” At this point APA is pretty much parroting Big Tech’s various “guidelines” that have justified a lot of legitimate information getting obliterated over the past years as (never precisely and objectively defined) “misinformation.”

The “recommendations” address fellow physiologists, urging them to become “literate” in this newly crafted “science” – in order to be able to take active part in “the solution.”

According to APA’s current standards, helping people (as psychology professionals) should now include the total of eight recommendations (prominent and fairly ominous, free speech-wise, among which is – “collaborate with social media companies to understand and reduce the spread of harmful misinformation”).

And practitioners should do this everywhere – “(in) our labs, our communities, or our families.”

January 9, 2024 - Posted by | Full Spectrum Dominance, Science and Pseudo-Science |

3 Comments »

  1. They’re blatantly trying to brainwash you, as in control what you think.

    And isn’t psychiatry the medical discipline that has never come up with a cure for anything?

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    poisonedwater's avatar Comment by poisonedwater | January 9, 2024 | Reply

  2. Codifying certain thought as a crime was done before.  Let me put it this way to give people a sense where this gang of mindbenders are taking us. 

    The Nazis searched high and low for a small group of German college students who called themselves the “White Rose”. Their was posting their opposition to Nazi rule on billboards in universities and other public places. Today, that would include the internet. Those same German students posted their objections to the Nazi regime using legal principles taken from the German Constitution which Hitler had usurped after passage of the Enabling Act. 

    These young Germans did not attack Hitler or his henchmen by name. Instead, they simply listed the Nazi regime’s violations of of German law that existed before 1933.  

    It took awhile for the SS to find them, but members of the White Rose were eventually arrested and thrown in jail without due process. A brother and sister in their 20s, the two courageous leaders who started the White Rose, were charged by the SS with treason against the State.  They were both taken outside behind their prison cells and beheaded! 

    Today the permanent bureaucracy runs roughshod over the US Justice Dept like a Gestapo. They think and act like Nazis. We must not allow a bunch of mindbenders to get away with classifying certain free speech as anything other than free speech, under the US Constitution. 

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    Thomas Lee Simpson's avatar Comment by Thomas Lee Simpson | January 9, 2024 | Reply

  3. An organisation that cannot differentiate between Psychology and Physiology, and which apparently uses the terms interchangeably, is not one to be taken seriously.

    Psychology as a whole, is a joke. It is not a science, it is not ‘medicine’ in the Hippocratic meaning, it is in fact a form of religion with no basis in reality. Not a single study or any research can find a location (in the brain or any part of the body) to identify the source of any of the 500+ “Psychological afflictions”.

    “One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.” –

     Aldous Huxley – Brave New World

    “The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does.” They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.” –

     Aldous Huxley – Brave New World Revisited

    “The supreme trick of mass insanity is that it persuades you that the only abnormal person is the one who refuses to join in the madness of others, the one who tries vainly to resist. We will never understand totalitarianism if we do not understand that people rarely have the strength to be uncommon.” — Eugene Ionesco

    –

    Sometimes I am sad, sometimes I am happy, I do not need medication thank you.

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    peterjohnarnold's avatar Comment by peterjohnarnold | January 10, 2024 | Reply


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