Saved: Fear, faith and false salvation (paperback)

What if the biggest danger wasn’t the virus, but the way we thought about it? What if fear and hope shaped our choices more than reason ever could? And what if the “saviour” we placed our faith in blinded us to the harm it caused?

If Spiked was the post-mortem, Saved is the psychological profiling. Pathologist Dr Clare Craig goes beyond the data to investigate the deeper motivations and social forces that drove the covid response. Why did so many abandon long-held ethical principles? How did ordinary people – doctors, scientists, politicians, neighbours – become enforcers of policies that caused harm?

Saved examines the powerful human drivers behind the crisis: fear, groupthink, propaganda, moral pressure, and the near-religious faith in a vaccine portrayed as salvation. It reveals how hope and fear combined to create a belief system so strong that dissenters were shamed, silenced, or cast as heretics.

This is not about blame. It’s about understanding how good intentions were manipulated, how trust in science was replaced with ideology, and how to stop it from happening again.

If you’ve ever wondered not just what went wrong, but why we let it happen, this book asks the questions we can’t afford to ignore.

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