Red pilled: how covid twisted logic, ethics and science

• Autor(a) principal: Pacheco, André
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Livro
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/62245

This is a book about information narratives and how they emerge. What are we told, and what is omitted? Who are their proponents? What are their motivations? Who are the critics? What parts of the model is criticism aimed at? Is there evidence to support them? What happens to opposers of official narratives? In this questioning, it has found how governments and health organizations have attempted to convey a monolithic representation of the pandemic, disregarding data and criticism, instigating instead authoritarian tactics such as fear, censorship and propaganda. But why was there a push for a curated worldview? How did policies not change as our understanding of the virus evolved and new, less severe, variants emerged? How can unquestionable authority be equated with a scientific approach? Who is involved in this decision-making, and what are their incentives? Why were ethical codes dismissed? Why were vaccines promoted as a one-size-fits-all approach, while other treatments were censored? How to justify censorship and cancel culture? What made health officials lie publicly, and should it be accepted? What are the ethical and moral consequences of the erosion of trust in public institutions? And what can you, as an individual, do to safeguard democracy? These are some of the questions that guide this compelling analysis of covid information narratives. André Pacheco uses his skills as a researcher in a quest for evidence, finding a vacuum. And when there is a data vacuum, politics, ideology and agenda fill in that vacuum. This eye-opener book reveals a much more complex reality than the oversimplified story we were told. It deconstructs some of the agendas, shielded under the guise of “science”, that was used to trample on ethics, common sense and our democracies, unveiling the fabricated reality of the pandemic years.