‘Expert’ Says ‘Hardcore Anti-Vaxxers’ May Need ‘Deradicalising’ Like Terrorists
According to Professor Stephan Lewandowsky, chair of cognitive psychology at the University of Bristol, around six million eligible Brits have still not received a single injection of the vaccine, which he finds deeply upsetting.
Lewandowsky considers the hard core vaccine refuseniks to be “marginalised” people and “very difficult to reach for anything.”
ITV news reports: He told the PA news agency: “They’ll refuse anything – ‘I’m not going to wear a mask’, ‘I’m not going to get vaccinated’, ‘I don’t think climate change is happening’, ‘Covid is a hoax’, and, you know, ‘Hillary Clinton is actually a reptilian shapeshifter’.
“You’re getting to people who hold a cluster of very exotic beliefs – now, they’re very difficult to reach.”
Measures that could be used to reach more moderate people who remain unvaccinated, he said, include assigning vaccine appointments to people rather than asking them to book their own, or setting up pop-up clinics in places like supermarkets or shopping centres.
Another measure would be introducing a vaccine mandate, which he said “will disgruntle a few people” but “can be effective”.
But for those with more extreme views, he said, those methods may not be effective.
He added: “In the ideal world, time and money permitting, you can engage even those people in a very slow, long-term process where you affirm their right to have those beliefs… rather than telling them something about themselves they don’t want to hear, let’s put it that way.
“So you tell them something positive, and then engage in what is effectively the same as a deradicalisation process for former terrorists, or cult members.
“Because we’re really talking, when we get down to that small number of committed refusers, we’re talking about the psychology of cults and extremism, and it’s a very similar psychology.”
Mr Lewandowsky said online misinformation is a contributing factor, adding that while some steps had been taken to remove false claims, sites like Facebook and YouTube are “not doing enough”.
“One of the reasons these hardcore refuseniks exist is because they can live in their own ecosystem of misinformation,” he said.
Mr Lewandowsky needs to see a psychologist.
So this bastard is another single source of truth.
Hard to believe how his brain functions.
I believe Mr Lewandowsky needs to be placed into a mental health facility until he gets deradicalised. Its so interesting how some scientists whom I follow are so anti jab due to the contents of the jabby, and there are some that will defend the jabby till the end, I guess it all depends on the size of the donation they receive, and those whom I follow are too filled with integrity for them to go down that line of deceit. I wonder if Mr Lewandowsky is a communist it sounds like he is Polish and some of them liked the threat of communists and the lifestyle of it all.
It would appear that being deranged is a prerequisite for calling yourself an expert in this day and age. Just looking at the world’s scariest man Michael Baker and the pink haired land whale confirms that.
What a wanker, and happy pin cushion.
Put his name on ze list.
He’d be first in line to drink the Koolaide. He talks about us being in a cult. Unbelieveable arrogance.
I bet hes consulting with the ccp on how to run “re education” camps.
For those who do not recognise the name he is a rabid climate alarmist. He worked with the Aussie cartoonist and founder of the Skeptical Science website, John Cook, and they did the bogus study and paper to come up with the 97% of scientists agree on the causes of climate change. Cook now works at Monash University in Melbourne in the Climate Change Communication Hub!
They are both charlatans.
Charlatans is too kind. Filthy, communist
cunts is a much better description.
That cunt needs to be jabbed in the arse, with a pitchfork!
This is simply a global purge of political dissidents by the extreme left.
I was going to ask how come they can’t accept refusal of their mandates is down to individual, personal choice? Then I remembered they are only for the good of the collective, individualism is not part of their fascist totalitarianism.
EVIL is LIVE spelt backwards.
FJA.