(I was going to use another C-word to describe them)

So the Disinformation Project has finally come to an end, farewelled by David Harvey on his SubStack site with academic prose that it does not deserve:

What concerned me, and why it is that I do not mourn the departure of the Disinformation Project from the landscape, was the lack of rigour and the approach that was taken. Critical theory and neo-Marxist analysis – the conflict between the “empowered” and the “disempowered” – dominated the discussion along with the use of imprecise and opaque language. A further matter of concern was the reluctance to publish the data which supported the conclusions that the Project had reached.

Anybody who has followed the growing problems with social science research – and even pure science research – over recent years, would have been wary of these assholes:

The highest-profile study, the results of which were published in Nature in 2015, chose 100 studies from three top psychology journals and tried to replicate them using larger sample sizes. Only 39% replicated successfully. Another study, replicating papers published in Science and Nature, the world’s most prestigious science journals, found a replication rate of 62%. And almost all replication studies, even when successful, found that original studies exaggerated the size of their effects. This problem is now known as the replication crisis. It’s sometimes referred to as “psychology’s replication crisis” which is rather unfair:

Harvey continues with his good faith expressions of belief:

Yet Mainstream Media uncritically drank the Disinformation Project Kool Aid, citing their sound bites as authoritative when clearly they were not. In this respect the Disinformation Project was promulgating its own form of if not disinformation, then misinformation. If it is the latter then they were entitled to express their opinion. But it should have been something MSM should have critically analysed and they did not.

I’m trying to be generous to Harvey here, since he opposed the Disinformation Project, but really, this gross naivety about the MSM is pathetic. Of course they drank uncritically of the DP Koolaid. The DP said what they would have said anyhow, except being all new and shiny it was more believable than the patina of a legacy MSM increasingly distrusted by the masses. One might as well express astonishment at how well Pravda tracked with the expressions of the Soviet Politburo.

But let’s keep track of the pieces of shit who served in this POS organisation, because we’ll be hearing from them again I’m sure – probably as soon as the next Labour government is elected.

  • Kate Hannah, Founder and Director. Kate is a cultural historian of science and technology.
  • Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa, Research Director. Sanjana is a world-leading academic with over two decades of experience in studying and advising on information disorders.
  • Nicole Skews-Poole, Comms Director. Nicole is a public communicator and PR specialist with a track record of tackling meaty issues in accessible ways. She is now running her own specialist consultancy Anchordown.

There have to be more minions who helped and although the site does not list them you can probably spot some of them in this video.

It seems this is the Left of all shades everywhere now…