Critics of institutional complicity are dismissed as bullies and dissidents rather than engaged

Evidence

Some members of the APA protested the association’s support of psychologists’ involvement in abusive military interrogation. They were disparaged as “bullies” and “antimilitary dissidents.” Their allegations were dismissed by the APA as baseless, false, and inflammatory (Boyd, 2015; Hoffman et al., 2015). The Senate Intelligence Committee released a scathing report saying that the abuses in CIA detention and interrogation programs were much worse than presented to policy makers, were ineffective in eliciting accurate actionable information, and damaged the U.S. standing in the world. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2379

Categorization

• XREF: This is a textbook instance of Bandura’s moral disengagement mechanism where the in-group labels whistleblowers as disloyal — echoes pattern of the whistleblower treatment in the diamond-trade secrecy chapter. — connects to: Reform agencies muted criticism once their friends held power and shared patronage — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 362; Pundit dismissal of student protestors as future politicians trivializes present action — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1525; the MOC “The Violence That Builds: How Modern Order Is Forged, Not Broken, by Force”
• SEED: Article angle: ‘the ethics committee was the problem’ — how professional bodies manufacture their own moral license through membership stacking, hasty procedure, and labeling dissenters as disloyal.