IMO, it's the perfect set buzzwords for the masses and the uneducated. Short enough where they can glean a meaning from it at a quick glance, and long enough where it feels sophisticated to use.
I would propose this to be included as a sub-set of the definition [1]. I generally like the presentation of these videos and the work that goes into them.
if you haven’t seen these Joe Rogan interviews yet - it is worth downloading Spotify on your SmartTV to see Dr Robert Mallone and Dr. McCollough. 2 utterly fascinating conversations well worth 5 hours of your time.
Google’s pathetic attempts to censor these is pure evil.
I knew I had to listen to the Malone one yesterday once I saw that it got banned everywhere (thank you Streisand effect). I was surprised by how lucid it was considering my preconceptions. A lot of Malone's main points, especially those about censorship and how dangerous a thing it is to censor criticism of pharmaceutical institutions, rang particularly true in hindsight (knowing that you're listening to a podcast that itself was censored). I don't agree with everything he said (I did some research beforehand about the guy and looked at some criticisms of his claims after) but I fully agree that censoring him is not only wrong, but evil (censoring criticism of a drug harms the very concept of informed consent).
Interestingly the "mass formation psychosis" bit, which seemed like just a fancy way of saying "a lot of people have surprisingly crazy opinions about COVID, what's up with that?", was barely a side note rather than his main argument, which is that there are a lot of flaws and conflicts of interest in a lot of institutions around the pandemic and the vaccine, and that a lot of good criticism may be getting suppressed in the (perhaps well-intentioned) attempts to fight vaccine hesitancy.
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[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09maaUaRT4M [video]
Interestingly the "mass formation psychosis" bit, which seemed like just a fancy way of saying "a lot of people have surprisingly crazy opinions about COVID, what's up with that?", was barely a side note rather than his main argument, which is that there are a lot of flaws and conflicts of interest in a lot of institutions around the pandemic and the vaccine, and that a lot of good criticism may be getting suppressed in the (perhaps well-intentioned) attempts to fight vaccine hesitancy.
Dr Malone’s post on the topic: https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/mass-formation-psychosis In my reading, there’s a dash of truth and a bowl of exaggeration.