UK Column News - Monday, 28th November 2022 04:19 - Their Lordships decide to change our minds—behavioural psychology segment with guest Dr Bruce Scott

 

UK Column News - Monday, 28th November 2022 04:19 - Their Lordships decide to change our minds—behavioural psychology segment with guest Dr Bruce Scott

04:19 House of Lords Paper 64: In our hands: behaviour change for climate and environmental goals

Government nudging: From the infinitesimal to the irrelevant

UK Government's Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance bemoans “legions of armchair epidemiologists”

Bruce Scott commentary: How exactly did Vallance become an expert environmentalist?

Lord Peter Lilley’s minority report of one at the very back of the paper (Appendix 5) is well worth reading: even on the most optimistic estimate, lifestyle changes can hardly amount to 10% of the supposedly necessary CO2 reduction

Table in report shown on screen: people driving, people flying, diet, and construction of homes are among the top half-dozen “evils” targeted

Dr Bruce Scott: This drive will involve the usual shaming and perhaps Canadian scenarios: dissidents psychiatrically diminished, treated against their will as a “danger to self, to others and to the environment”

UK Column News - Monday, 28th November 2022 10:50 - Climate Change Committee: Behaviour change, public engagement and Net Zero (2019)

“New, compelling narratives will be needed” for the envisaged nudging (p. 11)

Linked document on consent—includes table Public awareness and consumer choices: “what it will entail … is a prerequisite”

Without nudging, “the transition will continue to stall”

Who’s on the Climate Change Committee? Led by John Gummer; includes Prof. Nick Chater of Warwick Business School

Bruce Scott analysis—Conflicts of interest: Committee members (peers and academics) have positions in biosecurity and nuclear threats; sustainability company; mining interests; construction; surveillance industry; healthcare products company

14:56 Artificial intelligence to inform the tweakers of human behaviour

Human Behaviour-Change Project sponsored by Wellcome Trust: “developing AI system”

International Training Programme at UCL: that ubiquitous Susan Michie

Prof. Angel Marie Chater [uncertain whether or not related to Prof. Nick Chater]—more in Extra Time

Dr Louise Atkins: behavioural change intervention consultant and leader of Centre for Behavioural Change’s Australasian Hub; honorary academic at University of Auckland

David Scott commentary: Antipodean connections are telling, given Covid tyranny down under; Atkins is also researching end-of-life care and behavioural change, which has much Belgian involvement—a country that is a pioneer of mass euthanasia

17:27 Behaviour Change Wheel: book by Michie, Atkins and West

18:06 Life Sciences Vaccine Task Force: new UK Government model to “tackle challenges”—moved to Department of Health in March 2021 under Kate Bingham, long-time biotech investor

UK Government Life Sciences Vision published in July 2021

Today: UK Government Board of Trade publication—Life sciences: What’s next for this UK top sector?

Board of Trade's recommendations to make much more money out of British behaviouralism:

• Build more facilities

• More home-grown talent

• Promote regional investment

• Leverage overseas networks