Psychologists challenge the ethics of their profession’s complicity with the Covid PsyOps –
An Open Letter
Over the past year, many psychological specialists have been urging the British Psychological Society(BPS) to address their widespread ethical concerns about the UK Government’s deployment of covert psychological strategies (or ‘nudges’) throughout the COVID-19 crisis. The Government’s communication strategy – following guidance from their advisory behavioural scientists – resorted to fear-inflation, shaming and scapegoating as a way of increasing compliance with restrictions and the vaccine roll-out. Many psychology professionals believed that inflicting these methods on the British public was grossly unethical. Regrettably, the BPS did not concur, offering responses that I believe were evasive and disingenuous.
There exists escalating discontent, among both professionals and the general public, about the ethical basis of ‘nudging’. In light of this groundswell of concern, I decided to write to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PACAC) (a Commons Select Committee chaired by William Wragg MP) to formally request an independent inquiry into the Government’s use of covert psychological strategies. The resulting letter has been co-signed by 40 professionals from the psychology/therapy/mental health sphere and 15 other professionals. A copy of the letter sent to the PACAC, incorporating the co-signatories, is reproduced below.
Dr Gary Sidley
Thank you for your forthrightness and detailed insights into what has been going on with the coercion of us British Citizens into accepting our place in the vaccine/experimental injection agenda (although I am not one of the coerced). I truly hope that this will hit hard.
I agree with Richard Catlin. What the British government – and other governing bodies around the world – have been doing is just shocking. Psychological techniques are there to be used in service to our wellbeing. Not to leverage greater domination and coercion. They should be ashamed of themselves.