What happens when institutions become more interested in protecting themselves than informing the public?
Our entry point is the David Morens controversy and troubling questions about government transparency, federally funded research, and the avoidance of public-records laws.
This episode follows the deeper pattern—from institutional self-protection to the gradual displacement of individual judgment by centralized authority. We examine how fear, media incentives, social pressure, and real-time messaging shaped public behavior during the pandemic—and why meaningful consent requires more than simply being told what to do.
Then we turn to the psychological machinery. …
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