1) A thread of my ongoing threads, covering the various linked "grassroots" campaigns disseminating disinformation, conspiracy theories, and pseudo-science. First up, the UK Medical Freedom Alliance: https://t.co/YwHqJBY9GS

I'm now off to concentrate on a different project. This account will remain open as a reference tool to Covid disinformation groups, Narice Bernard, Robin Tilbrook, HART & their endless affiliated entities. (I'm always watching though so behave yerselves).

People will always be susceptible to lies, propaganda, conspiracies, etc, as long as there's outlets for lies, propaganda, conspiracies, etc, to make money from it. And, as the best in the biz of lies, propaganda, conspiracies, etc, demonstrates below, its a circle. (Roughly...)

And, not to blow my own horn or anything (been advised by a doctor not to anymore, after the pierced diaphragm "incident") but I've spent the past 3 years studying so many people on here, & elsewhere, &, honestly, its all a bit fucking ridiculous.

"How did science ever progress without open, honest debate?" But you're *literally* calling for the cessation of advances in science. "Science, schm-ience, you big poop face." Ok, and there it is.

"If you don't believe me then please listen to this guy who, for a few years, supervised a department which mainly demonstrated to 2nd year students what a pipette was, what he has to say! Insider, whistle-blower knowledge!!"

"I've discovered, merely by my general knowledge of the internet, what the people who have spent years studying have absentmindedly missed! Subscribe to my [insert latest grift channel here] so you can also become as knowledgetable [sic] as me!"

I mean, if you were really a "critical thinker" then you would have questioned why those who proclaim loudest about having the least to gain always, as it just so happens, are making extremely good money of YouTube vids, Patreon, etc, just so you can discover the *real* truth.

Now, imagine certain people wanted to keep that undercurrent of fear & hate bubbling away, how would they do that, d'you think? Yes, that's right, they would, with the aid of media, bombard you with emotive terms & contrarianism, encourage "critical thinking" & undermine experts.

Human beings are vilified, shamed, humiliated, traduced, abused, maligned, dishonoured, degraded, demeaned, despised, destroyed, killed, or pushed to suicide, but votes and money though, eh?

The word "trans" is interesting when looking at Google Trends, and this is just showing data for the UK.

Through simple tools, for example, Google Trends, you can just enter any word and see the rough scale of when that word peaks in searches & in what context. And you can narrow it down to just the UK. So, for instance, "migrant":

You had me at "othering"

Funny how othering, xenophobia, racism & "dreams of flights to Rwanda" wins votes, sells newspapers, increases viewing/listening figures & subsequently fees for advertising, but years of ideas, policies, Bills, referendums, etc, we're still at othering, xenophobia.... ah... ok...

And if you feel like you have no-one to speak to, my DMs are open if you just want to vent at some random on Twitter. There are always people who'll listen. See @NHSuk link below or @samaritans https://t.co/aNfSHPnZ4Y

Slightly different to my usual tweets but in the hope its a help to someone: you may think things aren't going to get better or easier, or believe that the people around you would be better off without you here, but trust me, it will get better. Speak to someone.

Here you go @JohnBoweActor I've put together a portfolio of headshots for you to highlight your feelings of indignation. You're welcome, John.

🧵It was "I'm not an antivaxxer, but...." Now it's "I'm not a far right conspiracy theorist, I just hang around with Qanon" Quick look at Qanons' Mappin's UK mates Melville and Farage

https://t.co/tkuDKjaOHF

Aye, James, the pineapple tweet (which you've posted umpteen times now) would perhaps seem amusing (?? or was he going for "clever"?) if you didn't have a tendency to, for example, question clouds. Jeezo.

And as we've seen with "freedom fighters", self-proclaimed "critical thinkers", Covid disinformation groups & the far right in the UK, there's a fascinating, yet horrifying, crossover with Russian propaganda & neo-Nazis. Its either naivety, stupidity or intentional.