Thank you for this excellent reference. I hope many will read it. It puts a massive question mark right on Sachs head and his motivations. I must concur with you. The ‘virus’ wild versus lab headlines a timely red herring, an ongoing successful diversion.
Mathewalred substack on cognitive infiltration quotes from a paper written by Cass Sunstein of ‘nudge’ fame, and I thought this piece he quoted is key right now in regard to strategy of paid trolls nudging the ‘misinformed’ ..
Sunstein…
‘ First, responding to more rather than fewer conspiracy theories has a kind of synergy benefit: it reduces the legitimating effect of responding to any one of them, because it dilutes the contrast with unrebutted theories. …’
Thank you for this excellent reference. I hope many will read it. It puts a massive question mark right on Sachs head and his motivations. I must concur with you. The ‘virus’ wild versus lab headlines a timely red herring, an ongoing successful diversion.
Mathewalred substack on cognitive infiltration quotes from a paper written by Cass Sunstein of ‘nudge’ fame, and I thought this piece he quoted is key right now in regard to strategy of paid trolls nudging the ‘misinformed’ ..
Sunstein…
‘ First, responding to more rather than fewer conspiracy theories has a kind of synergy benefit: it reduces the legitimating effect of responding to any one of them, because it dilutes the contrast with unrebutted theories. …’