Psyops 101: A brief history of fake news

Published on 1 Nov 2012

TRANSCRIPT AND SOURCES: http://www.corbettreport.com/?p=6059

Military deception is an ancient and time-honoured art. Throughout recorded history, military commanders have attempted to spread false news and seed false information as part of psychological warfare operations to deceive, confuse, and demoralize the enemy. Find out more about this phenomenon in this week's Eyeopener report from BoilingFrogsPost.com.

When Quality Doesn’t Count

A response to peer reviewed article “Quantifying expert consensus against the existence of a secret large-scale atmospheric spraying program.”

Recently a ‘peer reviewed’ article titled “Quantifying expert consensus against the existence of a secret large-scale atmospheric spraying program” (Christine Shearer, 2016) was published by Environmental Research Letters in an attempt to “establish a source of objective science that can inform public discourse” in relation to a secret large-scale atmospheric spraying program according to the authors Christine Shearer (Department of Earth System Science, University of California & Near Zero, Carnegie Institution for Science), Mick West (MetaBunk.org), Ken Caldeira (Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science) and Steven J Davis (Department of Earth System Science, University of California & Near Zero, Carnegie Institution for Science).

To anyone familiar with peer reviewed papers and data collection processes the poor design of the article and corresponding questionnaires[1], [2] is immediately apparent; most notably the use of non-scientific terms and ambiguous wording[3] that is liable to generate social desirability bias[4] within respondents. For example the use of the term “secret large-scale atmospheric spraying program” or “SLAP” rather than using familiar scientific terms e.g. geoengineering, solar radiation management etc. Let’s break it down.

Secret [5]

• kept hidden from others : known to only a few people
• keeping information hidden from others

Large Scale [6]

• involving many people or things <Their equipment is suitable for large-scale production.>
• covering or involving a large area <a large-scale map>

Atmospheric [7]

• the whole mass of air that surrounds the Earth
• a mass of gases that surround a planet or star
• the air in a particular place or area

Spraying Program [8]

• a plan of things that are done in order to achieve a specific result

Therefore it is reasonable to conclude answers submitted by respondents pertain only to a “Secret” “Large Scale” “Atmospheric” Spraying “Program”, thus excluding such things like geoengineering, solar radiation management, albeado modification, atmospheric climate intervention or even “known” large-scale atmospheric spraying programs etc.

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