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Read "How SAGE and the UK media created fear in the British public"

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Reprinted From  https://evidencenotfear.com/how-sage-and-uk-media-created-fear-in-the-british-public/ "COVID-19 started registering with most of the British public around late February and early March. Many were concerned but not particularly afraid. Only weeks later people were terrified to leave their homes or go near other human beings. How did such a dramatic shift in public perception happen so quickly? In early March 2020, The Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) produced a document for the UK Government highlighting methods for rolling out new social distancing rules. There seemed to be some doubt as to whether the public would comply with the upcoming measures so SAGE outlined a methodology based on known psychological behavioural modification techniques. SAGE, SPI-B and applied psychology SAGE is an advisory group to the UK government responsible for making sure decision makers have access to scientific advice. We are told that the advice provided by SAGE does
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A Dialogue with Effie Deans About The New PRO-UK Party 'Rebuild Scotland'

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On Thursday 27th May 2021 the Effie Deans posted ‘ Do we even want to defeat Sturgeon? ’ on her Blog. As a great admirer of Deans on Twitter and having read most of her Blogposts, I was immediately intrigued. Of course the title is a rhetorical question with the assumed answer being ‘yes', and the psychological hook is the implication that ‘we’ are going about defeating Sturgeon in the wrong way.  Eager to read what I expected to be her analysis of mistakes ‘we’ are making in our efforts to defeat Sturgeon, Deans did not disappoint, and as I read I agreed with most of her description of the recent Scottish Parliamentary election until half way through the post I read:   “If there is to be a list only Pro UK party (and this is up for debate) then there has to be only one. It may seem good fun setting up your own party and playing at politics, but it is simply stupid that there were so many Pro UK list parties. “   As far as I know only one new PRO-UK party has been set up since the
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