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I recently did an interview where I was asked to give my opinion on recent changes in UK border policy as an expert. After I did this, the two hosts discussed me, suggesting that I was out of touch, & didn't understand that we need to 'accept' risk.
🧵 on 'accepting' risks.
🧵 on 'accepting' risks.
My opinion was clearly out of vogue in the UK, despite being in line with scientific consensus, because the UK has it's own consensus- not based on science. And scientists can either fall in line with it, or be seen as 'alarmists', out of touch with media/public sentiment.
This is a key reason I don't do media anymore. I've realised that when I'm invited for interviews, it's not because people want my expert opinion. It's because they want a fall guy to present as fringe and extreme, to normalise the dystopia that we live in.
Miriam Cates, at today's Westminster Hall debate on vaccinating children 'paying tribute to UsForThem', a lobby group that's has consistently spread misinformation & lobbied against mitigations in schools and vaccinations for kids. How much influence does this grp have on govt?🧵
This should worry us all. #HARTlogs reveal UFT looking for 'expert witnesses' to pressure the MHRA to not approve vaccines for kids. One of their signatories has discussed 'seeding the idea that vaccines cause COVID-19'. This is dangerous. Yet, this group has been quoted by MPs.
This group sent a pre-action letter to Gavin Williamson last year, pressuring DfE to open schools without mitigations in Sept, despite SAGE warning government about the devastating impacts of this on the pandemic. We all know what happened after.
