these people are misusing behavioral science and quite frankly i’m appalled. i hold degrees and certifications in behavioral science MYSELF. this is government looking for someone to green light shit that they need to justify and it’s disgusting and whoever is working with them should be stripped of their licenses to practice.
which is all well and good but i have a masters in applied behavioral psychology and a license to practice. i’m EXTREMELY well acquainted with the professions code of ethics and the aversive consequences that are being implemented re corona situation for those not obeying the mandates are 100% unethical according to the professions own code.
You should check Cass Sunstein’s twitter feed from time to time, you’ll find interesting stuff since BeSci is your line of work, afterall he presently chairs the UN’s advisory group on behavioral insights.
Anyway, when I posted that stuff, I wondered about America’s “nudge unit” because there is NO WAY that the UK, Canada and other countries would have these teams embedded within gov’t agencies and that they are now heavily involved in the covid response that somehow the US wouldn’t have one. So I decided to look around…I was intrigued, I wanted to see a face to the madness.
Turns out
one was created under Obama in 2015 by a cognitive neuroscientist, Maya Shankar, now at Google in the same line of work. It was called “Social and Behavioral Sciences Team” (SBST). It’s like all these people read from the same script. The reasons given for it’s creation mirror those from the UK & Canada. Curiously, she was the first Behavioral science advisor to the UN….preceding Sunstein.
I wanted more information about her and
found this:
"A version of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Team, called the Office of Evaluation Sciences, still exists under President Biden, but Shankar has already moved on to a new phase in her career. She joined Google in 2017, and this year she started podcasting."
It seems the SBST became defunct or metamorphosed or was melded with other units…at this point, iam not sure. Their annual reports stopped
around 2016 and yet the current head of OES says this
(it is a 2021 article):
“It’s been a privilege to serve with my talented colleagues at SBST and OES. It’s a group of humble, gracious, kind thought leaders who could be successful anywhere, and have decided to dedicate their time to improving government through generation and use of rigorous evidence. I am thankful for the talent, dedication, and caliber of the team every day.”
So SBST is still around (?) but I have to say that it’s very clever on the part of the persons moving these cogs-in-the-wheel to file them away under USGSA (General Services Administration) rather than somewhere under HHS. None of this raises any suspicions actually.
You may remember the covid, DNC & text messages to everyone’s phone saga from afew weeks ago? This more than likely emanated from the nudge units. Aswell as the door-knocking strike teams. These articles show that their work would produce that kind of nudging. I wouldn't put Fauci's utterances past them either.
OES seems desperate for talent….incase you have the urge to play mind control (this is a joke
)….here is Kelly Bidwell, the current director of OES and she makes this plea at the end of that article and you wanted someone stripped of their license…you have a face now.
You'll more stuff at OES'
Twitter account
Finally, it seems to me that someone, somewhere made a co-ordinated effort to have these BI Teams created in every country in the last decade because said person(s) knew that behavioral science would be very crucial to/in the implementation of a plan that said person(s) has.