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    'Vaccines and Freedom' - Philosophy Tube's collaboration with Valent Projects and the Royal Society Archived Message

    Posted by Ian M on July 14, 2022, 12:05 am

    Missed it at the time (Feb) but the youtube host Abigail Thorn whose ties to Amil Khan, Valent Projects and the Royal Institute was exposed by the grayzone last december*, released her/their video about the vaccines - the 'mass appeal social media campaign' described in leaked Valent Project docs. Judge for yourself if it achieved its goal of 'a measurable cognitive shift in the target audience':





    I was unpersuaded by the patronising tone and questionable display of empathy, as with the greater good arguments and assertions of the vaccine's safety including in the long term, which I've already heard from about 1,000 different people. At least there's some honesty about her 'trust' in govt and medical officials leading her to get jabbed multiple times without any critical inquiry of her own, though she doesn't use the more damning word: 'conformity'. And the interviews of randomers sourced from anti-vax facebook groups did at least present some well-expressed dissent which she granted had some legitimacy. Still comes across as a thinly disguised government infomercial though...

    Couldn't find any mention of the grayzone report on her twitter, only this oblique strawman when the vid was released:

    'Abigail Thorn @PhilosophyTube
    NEW VIDEO

    ‘Vaccines & Freedom’

    Really proud of this one - it’s the result of a long project to interview unvaccinated people and find out what they really think, done with help from @Ri_Science !

    Thank you to all the members of the public who took part in the study, and to the amazing voice actors and artists who brought their words to life! 💖

    During the research phase some folks mixed up the Royal Institution with the Royal Family, and claimed I was paid to make the video as a secret MI5 psy-op! 😲 In reality @Ri_Science are a charity and I wasn’t paid at all. The project details are openly disclosed in the video.

    It was a little hurtful being harassed for weeks over that conspiracy theory. If you did spread it, perhaps you’d consider a small donation to Unicef’s Vaccinaid fundraiser by way of an apology? No hard feelings 😌✨👑 ' - https://twitter.com/PhilosophyTube/status/1497296974902616074

    It must have influenced her decision to disclose the collaboration at the start of the vid, hoping that nobody would look too closely at the people she was working with.

    Anyway, the eye of sauron has moved from covid onto ukraine now (as has Amil Khan, whose new best bud is Paul Mason, also exposed by GZ), so maybe there's no point bringing this up now, except as an illustration of how the information landscape is manipulated at every level, and that only a fool would 'trust' what they saw unquestioningly. I see there are plenty of them in the comments under the youtube vid and twitter post. Only a couple of disparaging references to Jimmy Dore and the grayzone, nobody with anything critical to say about this person working with a spook organisation or the role she's taken upon herself of doing the government's work for it.

    jeers,
    I

    *****

    * - see here: https://thegrayzone.com/2021/12/24/leaked-files-syria-psyops-astroturfing-breadtube-covid/ and previous thread here: https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/thread/1640812345.html

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