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“GROUPTHINK” IS THE ONLY GLUE HOLDING THE COUNTRY TOGETHER AT THE MOMENT. THE CONSEQUENCES OF ALLOWING SO CALLED EXPERTS TO MAKE DECISIONS WITHOUT ANY CRITICAL JUDGMENT OF WHAT THEY ARE DOING WILL RESULT IN ANOTHER DISASTER.
In 1972, Irving Janis, a research psychologist, coined the term “groupthink” to describe the phenomenon where people set aside their intuition, beliefs and intelligence to become part of the crowd in order to avoid the inevitable personal attacks and abuse endured by people who go against the prevailing narrative.
Since then the term has been used to explain the decision making process that often leads to catastrophe in a wide range of groups from small clubs to nation states.
"The Only Thing We Learn From History Is That We Learn Nothing From History." We’ve apparently learned nothing from the crash that came in 2008-2009.
Let’s caste our minds back to the heady days of the Celtic Tiger when the country was flying high on the strength of a property bubble.
Dissenting voices rowing against the prevailing narrative were vilified.
Morgan Kelly professor of economics at University College Dublin used his column in the Irish Times to warn that the bubble was going to burst and the idea of a “soft landing” most other economists were promoting was a myth.
In December 2006 under a headline “How the housing corner stones of our economy could go into rapid free fall” he began:
“Offering no evidence except wishful thinking, estate agents and politicians assure us that we have nothing to worry about: the Irish housing market can look forward to a soft landing.
If, however, we look at what has happened to other small economies where sudden prosperity and easy credit drove house prices to absurd levels, we should be very worried indeed.
If the experiences of economies similar to ours are anything to go by, we may be looking at large and prolonged falls in real house prices of the order of 40-50 per cent and a collapse of house-building activity.”(1)
He wrote a number of other columns saying much the same thing until the Taoiseach of the day snapped.
Bertie Aherne addressing the Irish Congress of Trade Unions conference in July 2007 said he did not know how people who criticised the economic state of the country did not commit suicide.
“Sitting on the sidelines, cribbing and moaning is a lost opportunity. I don't know how people who engage in that don't commit suicide because frankly the only thing that motivates me is being able to actively change something,” he said.(2)
The decisions that led to the property bubble burst and the financial collapse of 2008 was a classic case of groupthink, in which a group of apparent experts came to an uncritical consensus, ignored clear warning signs and pursued a disastrous course of action.
A naive populace allowed themselves to be sucked in by the hype and propaganda, preying mostly on people’s greed.
As a nation we will be paying the pleasures enjoyed during the Celtic Tiger for many more years to come.
This brings me to the present moment.
I believe that we are in the midst of globalised “groupthink” on a scale hitherto unknown.
In Ireland any scientists or medics that dissents pays a very high price.
Last September Dr Martin Feeley the clinical director of the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group was forced to resign for expressing a view that the coronavirus is “much less severe” than the flu for most people and that there is no justification for lockdown. (3)
Dr Gerard Waters , a GP at the Whitethorn Clinic in Celbridge was suspended last month for refusing to engage with the HSE’s Covid vaccine programme.
He told the Irish Times he would not administer the vaccine on the basis that he believed it was untrustworthy and unnecessary.
“My problem primarily is that I don’t think the pathogenicity of Covid is sufficiently severe to a. cause lockdowns or b. use a messenger RNA vaccine,” he said as he expressed concern over the safety of the Covid vaccines.
Following his comments, the Medical Council used its powers under the Medical Practitioners Act 2007 to make an ex parte application to the High Court for his suspension in a hearing that was heard in camera with nobody, not even journalists allowed to be present. (4)
Starting tomorrow the government is about to engage in one of the most blatant propaganda exercises ever undertaken to bully and frighten people into being vaccinated. (5)
Every means at the state’s disposal is going to be used to disregard the Nuremberg Code that upholds freedom of choice and bodily integrity.
Where is freedom of choice for student doctors and nurses being told by the HSE that they will not be provided with a clinical placement if they are not vaccinated?(6)
This time last year if you suggested that freedom of movement would be dependent on a vaccination passport, you would surely have been branded a conspiracy theorist.
Anybody who believes that the lockdown in Ireland is going to end in the next couple of months, is, in my opinion overly optimistic.
It’s no secret that ending lockdown is contingent on the successful rollout of the vaccination program.
The Irish Independent’s political correspondent Hugh O’Connell reports today that he has been briefed by a government source who said:
"There is an obligation on the Government to try and indicate what May and June might look like with the vaccine roll-out. At some point, we have to link vaccine roll-out to the roadmap.”(7)
Reading the reports in today’s papers about the incompetent vaccine rollout over the last couple of months I am not surprised because I already know from past observations they couldn't organize a piss-up in a brewery.
“Groupthink” is the only glue holding the ongoing lockdown coupled to the vaccine programme.
Truth always wins out in the end, regardless of the extremities reached to try and suppress it.
I believe medics like Martin Feehily and Gerard Waters who are currently vilified like Morgan Kelly once was, like him, will be vindicated when the truth of what is currently happening comes into the light.
(1)https://www.google.ie/amp/s/www.irishtim...3fmode=amp
(2) https://youtu.be/hfjGSfuSQpA
(3) https://www.google.ie/amp/s/www.irishtim...3fmode=amp
(4) https://www.google.ie/amp/s/www.irishtim...3fmode=amp
(5) https://www.facebook.com/1452372037/post...34652/?d=n
(6) https://www.facebook.com/1452372037/post...34652/?d=n
(7) https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/re...47322.html
“GROUPTHINK” IS THE ONLY GLUE HOLDING THE COUNTRY TOGETHER AT THE MOMENT. THE CONSEQUENCES OF ALLOWING SO CALLED EXPERTS TO MAKE DECISIONS WITHOUT ANY CRITICAL JUDGMENT OF WHAT THEY ARE DOING WILL RESULT IN ANOTHER DISASTER.
In 1972, Irving Janis, a research psychologist, coined the term “groupthink” to describe the phenomenon where people set aside their intuition, beliefs and intelligence to become part of the crowd in order to avoid the inevitable personal attacks and abuse endured by people who go against the prevailing narrative.
Since then the term has been used to explain the decision making process that often leads to catastrophe in a wide range of groups from small clubs to nation states.
"The Only Thing We Learn From History Is That We Learn Nothing From History." We’ve apparently learned nothing from the crash that came in 2008-2009.
Let’s caste our minds back to the heady days of the Celtic Tiger when the country was flying high on the strength of a property bubble.
Dissenting voices rowing against the prevailing narrative were vilified.
Morgan Kelly professor of economics at University College Dublin used his column in the Irish Times to warn that the bubble was going to burst and the idea of a “soft landing” most other economists were promoting was a myth.
In December 2006 under a headline “How the housing corner stones of our economy could go into rapid free fall” he began:
“Offering no evidence except wishful thinking, estate agents and politicians assure us that we have nothing to worry about: the Irish housing market can look forward to a soft landing.
If, however, we look at what has happened to other small economies where sudden prosperity and easy credit drove house prices to absurd levels, we should be very worried indeed.
If the experiences of economies similar to ours are anything to go by, we may be looking at large and prolonged falls in real house prices of the order of 40-50 per cent and a collapse of house-building activity.”(1)
He wrote a number of other columns saying much the same thing until the Taoiseach of the day snapped.
Bertie Aherne addressing the Irish Congress of Trade Unions conference in July 2007 said he did not know how people who criticised the economic state of the country did not commit suicide.
“Sitting on the sidelines, cribbing and moaning is a lost opportunity. I don't know how people who engage in that don't commit suicide because frankly the only thing that motivates me is being able to actively change something,” he said.(2)
The decisions that led to the property bubble burst and the financial collapse of 2008 was a classic case of groupthink, in which a group of apparent experts came to an uncritical consensus, ignored clear warning signs and pursued a disastrous course of action.
A naive populace allowed themselves to be sucked in by the hype and propaganda, preying mostly on people’s greed.
As a nation we will be paying the pleasures enjoyed during the Celtic Tiger for many more years to come.
This brings me to the present moment.
I believe that we are in the midst of globalised “groupthink” on a scale hitherto unknown.
In Ireland any scientists or medics that dissents pays a very high price.
Last September Dr Martin Feeley the clinical director of the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group was forced to resign for expressing a view that the coronavirus is “much less severe” than the flu for most people and that there is no justification for lockdown. (3)
Dr Gerard Waters , a GP at the Whitethorn Clinic in Celbridge was suspended last month for refusing to engage with the HSE’s Covid vaccine programme.
He told the Irish Times he would not administer the vaccine on the basis that he believed it was untrustworthy and unnecessary.
“My problem primarily is that I don’t think the pathogenicity of Covid is sufficiently severe to a. cause lockdowns or b. use a messenger RNA vaccine,” he said as he expressed concern over the safety of the Covid vaccines.
Following his comments, the Medical Council used its powers under the Medical Practitioners Act 2007 to make an ex parte application to the High Court for his suspension in a hearing that was heard in camera with nobody, not even journalists allowed to be present. (4)
Starting tomorrow the government is about to engage in one of the most blatant propaganda exercises ever undertaken to bully and frighten people into being vaccinated. (5)
Every means at the state’s disposal is going to be used to disregard the Nuremberg Code that upholds freedom of choice and bodily integrity.
Where is freedom of choice for student doctors and nurses being told by the HSE that they will not be provided with a clinical placement if they are not vaccinated?(6)
This time last year if you suggested that freedom of movement would be dependent on a vaccination passport, you would surely have been branded a conspiracy theorist.
Anybody who believes that the lockdown in Ireland is going to end in the next couple of months, is, in my opinion overly optimistic.
It’s no secret that ending lockdown is contingent on the successful rollout of the vaccination program.
The Irish Independent’s political correspondent Hugh O’Connell reports today that he has been briefed by a government source who said:
"There is an obligation on the Government to try and indicate what May and June might look like with the vaccine roll-out. At some point, we have to link vaccine roll-out to the roadmap.”(7)
Reading the reports in today’s papers about the incompetent vaccine rollout over the last couple of months I am not surprised because I already know from past observations they couldn't organize a piss-up in a brewery.
“Groupthink” is the only glue holding the ongoing lockdown coupled to the vaccine programme.
Truth always wins out in the end, regardless of the extremities reached to try and suppress it.
I believe medics like Martin Feehily and Gerard Waters who are currently vilified like Morgan Kelly once was, like him, will be vindicated when the truth of what is currently happening comes into the light.
(1)https://www.google.ie/amp/s/www.irishtim...3fmode=amp
(2) https://youtu.be/hfjGSfuSQpA
(3) https://www.google.ie/amp/s/www.irishtim...3fmode=amp
(4) https://www.google.ie/amp/s/www.irishtim...3fmode=amp
(5) https://www.facebook.com/1452372037/post...34652/?d=n
(6) https://www.facebook.com/1452372037/post...34652/?d=n
(7) https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/re...47322.html