Covid response ‘one of UK’s worst ever public health failures’

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/oct/12/covid-response-one-of-uks-worst-ever-public-health-failures

by jlokier • 5 years ago

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dTal• 5 years ago

Prof Trish Greenhalgh, of the University of Oxford, said the report hinted at a “less than healthy relationship” between government and its scientific advisory bodies.

No shit. That's been abundantly clear since at least 2009, when David Nutt was fired - from his position of chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs - for publicly holding the radical opinion that the legal status of drugs should reflect the harm that they do.

The following astonishing justification was given: "he cannot be both a government adviser and a campaigner against government policy".

That tells you everything you need to know about the UK government's attitude to scientific advice.

EricE• 5 years ago

It's always funny how Sweden is left off the COVID infection rate charts...

Covid response ‘one of UK’s worst ever public health failures’

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