MERL UK

The UK Covid Inquiry: Propaganda to protect the ‘pandemic’ narrative

On the 20th of November, 2025, the UK Covid Inquiry published a report on Module 2 of its ongoing review titled, ‘Core decision-making and...

You are Not a Horse: Misinformation, Medicalization, and the Suppression of Dissent in the...

A Tweet Read Around the World On August 21, 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) posted a now infamous (and retracted) tweet: “You...
EU Digital Covid Certificate

Part 2: Whither Europe? The EU is Poised for a Transformation towards Centralised Control...

Not too long ago, European integration promised peace, prosperity, and the sustained betterment of the human condition. As of spring 2025, the Brussels-led bloc...

Teaching Critical Thinking or Manufacturing Consent

Introduction When the World Health Organization announced a viral pandemic in early 2020, universities around the world swiftly adopted a wide range of emergency measures....
Timothy Caulfield

Public Money, Private Crusades: The ‘ScienceUpFirst‘ Campaign and the New Politics of Misinformation

The Face of “Science Communication” in Canada In recent years, a new genre of science communication has taken center stage in Canada. It doesn’t look...

Missing Conversation: COVID-19 Policies and the Silencing of Healthcare Workers

Introduction As a former practicing physician in Argentina, a sociologist by discipline, and now a professor of health policy, I never imagined that I would...

Covid Nudging Through Subliminal Messaging

Tragically, the vast majority of New Zealanders received the Pfizer ‘vaccinations’ during the covid era - even though some were NOT mandated by law...

NATO Member States Implement Classified “Resilience Objectives”

Governments of NATO member states implement classified 'NATO Resilience Objectives'. Dutch Minister of Public Health Fleur Agema accidently spilled the beans. She tried to...

Agitation and Integration Propaganda in the Covid Era

Introduction Typically, when we think of language as a system of communication peculiar to people in a particular social milieu, we might immediately imagine the...

Propaganda for Beginners, Part 6: Pride in Prejudice; The manipulation of perception through “pre-bunking”

(Part 6 of the series “Propaganda for Beginners”: Read Parts 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.) What is “pre-bunking” and why is it dangerous? It is a method of...