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  • @phillipjolly6287
    @phillipjolly6287 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +122

    Neil Ferguson couldn’t get a Kinder Surprise model right.
    The officials in charge of the response are an absolute disgrace and should be on trial for crimes against humanity, not honored with knighthood/damehoods.

    • @Eric-qm5xw
      @Eric-qm5xw 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Absolutely disgusting …so frustrating.

    • @gerardphillips7507
      @gerardphillips7507 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The apparent level of incompetence and BS is astounding. Thats political incompetence and scientific failure. The cabinet was dri en by the media and not by rational decision making. We can probably trace the origins of this failure back to Tony Blair's style of government. Moving ministers every other year is a recipe for short termism and incompetent decision making. What ha e these people ever done in a business or related to their roles?

    • @davidhogg657
      @davidhogg657 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      By officials, do you mean politicians? And by politicians, do you mean, tory politicians?

    • @phillipjolly6287
      @phillipjolly6287 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@davidhogg657 Tory politicians, as well as those that supported and even demanded harsher restrictions like that spineless WEF puppet Keir Starmer and the rest of his snivelling pathetic Labour politicians that voted in favour mandates and furthermore ignore excess deaths we experience right now. The notion that democracy is having the right to choose between one oppressor or another is utter BS, and lets not forget the Britains brightest and best "doctors and scientist", the like Van Tam, Whitty, Vallance and Ferguson, all corrupted parasites making a literal killing from their misinformation; some of which now actually for the pharma companies they helped garner such massive profits for while removing our liberty.

  • @barriereid9244
    @barriereid9244 ปีที่แล้ว +156

    The Pandemic Cabinet and all those who supported them should be inspected at a molecular level. The Treasury also needs a microscope investigation asap.

    • @secretabundance3310
      @secretabundance3310 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nuremberg Code for all that took part in the covid fraud !!!

    • @TheNefastor
      @TheNefastor 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Microscope ? Given the scale of the corruption, you'll need a telescope, my friend. A big one. I think they tried using Arecibo and that's how it broke down.

    • @johnkean6852
      @johnkean6852 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It will happen _EVERYONE_ is fed up NOT just those on the sidelines watching these people increase their bank accunts.

    • @secondchance6603
      @secondchance6603 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Plandemic will be quickly forgotten about now that a, 'tiny minority of radical Muslims' are showing their true colours.

    • @wolframdebris8102
      @wolframdebris8102 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      They couldnt run a fckn raffle

  • @thebubster0312
    @thebubster0312 ปีที่แล้ว +150

    Neil Fergusson couldn't model the winner of a one horse race.

    • @Andrew-rc3vh
      @Andrew-rc3vh 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      How arrogant of you.

    • @The.Doctor.Venkman
      @The.Doctor.Venkman 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Andrew-rc3vh 🤡

    • @diogenesegarden5152
      @diogenesegarden5152 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Well none of his models historically have come close to representing reality. They have mostly wildly exaggerated, which is great for promoting hysteria. The chances of his horse (or his trousers😂) falling at the first jump are pretty high.

    • @oliverreedslovechild
      @oliverreedslovechild 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Andrew-rc3vh Why? Fergusson has never had one of his ' model predictions 'come anywhere near close to being in the same hemisphere as accurate.

  • @fburton8
    @fburton8 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    One wonders what juicy epithets were used in reference to our lovely politicians in this sorry saga.

    • @OghamTheBold
      @OghamTheBold ปีที่แล้ว

      And morally bankrupt monarchy exhibit Prince (A) known to police as F***wit h _redacted_

    • @scottbarrie1303
      @scottbarrie1303 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      This is just a guess, but I imagine 'C*ckwomble' and 'Sh!tgoblin' were used.

  • @petermanley4242
    @petermanley4242 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Look at the positions vantam and valance now hold.

  • @fatbelly27
    @fatbelly27 ปีที่แล้ว +123

    Prof Carl Heneghan is head of the centre for evidence based medicine at Oxford University. He was ideally placed to comment on the government's handling of the pandemic, and did so. History appears to have proved him correct. Clearly some do not like that.

    • @scottsviews9406
      @scottsviews9406 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Like Open Democracy, it seems.

    • @montynorth3009
      @montynorth3009 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Where is the evidence that Covid vaccines work?
      Where are the double blind tests indicating a benefit above the control group?

    • @mikedavis-kp1sx
      @mikedavis-kp1sx 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      talk about looking for someone to blame.

    • @teokl6150
      @teokl6150 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      The EBM community has been viciously attacked by industry and its cheerleaders. Trying to undermine Prof Henegan's reputation is a disgraceful act which may erode public trust further.
      In fact, Prof Edmunds and his team made far more errors, just like the US CDC.
      My view as an EBM expert.

    • @BronzeAgeSwords
      @BronzeAgeSwords 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      well said

  • @davidcolin6519
    @davidcolin6519 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    As a very respectful request; Could you PLEASE include who the witnesses are in these videos.
    I am not in the UK and am not familiar with many of the lesser known people and faces.
    This would be a tremendous help to those who are not always on top of UK politics and personalities.

    • @Gleifel
      @Gleifel 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I am ngl as a very political brit I don’t recognise this guy either

  • @simonvanderirwin
    @simonvanderirwin 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    While this inquiry goes on, the daily mail readers won’t read anything about it, they’ll just be reading about what winter coat Kate Middleton wore today

  • @rayquirk4947
    @rayquirk4947 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    Absolutely no surprise that they are trying to discredit anyone who disagreed with the narrative.
    This isn’t an enquiry. It’s a cover up.

  • @GraemeRoberts
    @GraemeRoberts 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The person spelling f*ckwit with two t's made my irony meter explode.

  • @mickbrilliantfootballeroft327
    @mickbrilliantfootballeroft327 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Surely it should have been Witty in the chair?

    • @OghamTheBold
      @OghamTheBold ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Known to police as F***witty

    • @PostingCringeOnMain
      @PostingCringeOnMain ปีที่แล้ว

      Wait, are you actually too stupid to realise that Chris Whitty has already been called to give evidence at the enquiry and will be called again several times before it's over? I mean you can't even spell his name correctly, so I guess you are too stupid to understand how an equiry works.

    • @peteraustin4077
      @peteraustin4077 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      You mean Sir Whitty, don't forget his Knighthood. Then there's Van Tam who went on to work for Moderna.

    • @alanhat5252
      @alanhat5252 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He either was or will be.

    • @charlottebowes7666
      @charlottebowes7666 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@PostingCringeOnMain*inquiry
      Stupid.

  • @mayday3109
    @mayday3109 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    @openDemocracy Very grateful for the clips. But can you put a link to the full session in the description. People need to hear the whole debacle to get fully gobsmacked. Many thanks.

  • @peterhansen5685
    @peterhansen5685 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Here in new Zealand we don't suffer fools and these folks have still yet to admit the wrong they have caused humanity ,and they could not lie straight in bed .Shame,shame on all of them.

    • @stevefowler3398
      @stevefowler3398 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Utter bollox!
      You elected THAT DREADFUL WOMAN (ARDERN) to represent your country.
      She is a WEF acolyte.

  • @alanhat5252
    @alanhat5252 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    @OpenDemocracy, has there yet been any commentary about the 'track, trace & isolate' regime being shut down when there were around 6 cases in the UK, allowing SARS2 to spread uncounted the length & breadth of the country or the lack of any checks at ports & airports allowing spread to & from the entire world?

    • @alanhat5252
      @alanhat5252 ปีที่แล้ว

      Has this been compared with the response to SARS-1 in 2002?

    • @alan_davis
      @alan_davis 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      There were 6 cases in the country before people even knew. When they were reporting 6 cases it would already be thousands.

  • @Eric-qm5xw
    @Eric-qm5xw 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    Wow how outrageous, who’s been proven correct ..Carl Heneghan.

  • @plweis7203
    @plweis7203 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Carl Heneghan is spot on here.

  • @californiadreamin8423
    @californiadreamin8423 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    I get the impression that the way this video is being presented , is an exercise in scapegoating.

    • @mikedavis-kp1sx
      @mikedavis-kp1sx 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      my thoughts too, no doubt are comments are being watched. To which I say screw you !!

    • @justsayen2024
      @justsayen2024 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What was that??🎶 ITS BYOB Mate !!
      No!! Tell Boris it's the prince's funeral tomorrow..!

    • @californiadreamin8423
      @californiadreamin8423 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@mikedavis-kp1sx You shouldn’t drink so early in the evening. I bow to your superior intellect and understanding of medicine.
      PS. You don’t have to be a conarde all the time , particularly this time.

    • @Fendermanpaul
      @Fendermanpaul 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Correct! That scientist made valid points. He's spot on about closed minds in scientists

    • @TK421-53
      @TK421-53 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      No not scapegoating, accountability, responsibility and learning important lessons for the future.
      The COVID response is a dark page in western democracy and science.

  • @sirmook12
    @sirmook12 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    Had the rockets been allowed to be designed based on alternative opinions of "people's experts", they would never get off the ground in anyhting other than a fireball. There is a reason why "experts of narrow fields" make sense. No, they are not there to make policy but they are the ones who have the best chance of providing the right answers to questions that fall within their fields. I've heard many a Nobel laurate spout absolute rubish, nonsensical ideas that were not in their fields. But experts within those fields don't even bat an eye at that - it's normal, almost to be expected. Please note: 1. an expert is not always right (even when they give an opinion within their own field, but 2. an expert has the best chance to be right. Also: 3. the level of conviction in one's own opinion does not relate to how likely they are to be right 4. there are established theories" the core of which are no longer debated and somebody bringing that in itself up as a weakness (in lieu of a "lack of an open mind") is almost always a "professional contrarian" (somebody creating a niche for themselves by questioning basic established theories without real new evidence) or a troll/social media couch warrior with an uninformed opinion. It's not that theories (however well established) are not subject to revisiting from time to time - but those revisits happen either in light of new evidence or a new competing hypothesis. I'd argue that one of the greatest long-term effects of the current pandemic is the debasing and dismantling of epidmeiological and public health policies that placed societal health above the health and freedoms of the individual. I would argue that on the face of it, this was done NOT because of any new evidence or competing epidemiological hypothesis emerged, merely these policies happened to be in direct opposition to libertarian priorities. What we are seeing now is a continuation of the same fight, ie to establish politically correct libertarian "truths" as "real science". This of course simply does not work within the scientific community, however it does work at the level of public understanding (or misunderstanding).

  • @chefblanc
    @chefblanc 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    is the chap asking the questions getting paid by the government?

    • @bigkdog5091
      @bigkdog5091 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      No. He's the KC hired by the enquiry

    • @mikedavis-kp1sx
      @mikedavis-kp1sx 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      where do you think the white wash committee gets its money from. My guess would be the government. @@bigkdog5091

    • @God_help_us
      @God_help_us 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@bigkdog5091so yes…he is being paid by the government via the tax you pay

    • @janwynne-woodhouse5144
      @janwynne-woodhouse5144 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      So that would apply to anyone

    • @God_help_us
      @God_help_us 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@janwynne-woodhouse5144 i;m not paid by the government..are you?

  • @parametr
    @parametr ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Carl Heneghan, in case you wanna check what he said.

  • @Caesar-3el
    @Caesar-3el 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    AND THERE STILL PUSHING THIS POISON TO THIS VERY DAY.

    • @brianpark8758
      @brianpark8758 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Where about is this "there," that you speak of, what poison & what `s with all the capital letters?

    • @sisuguillam5109
      @sisuguillam5109 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Eh?

  • @richardharvey1732
    @richardharvey1732 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    Hi Open Democracy, thank you for this, it is the first time I have actually heard Carl Heneghan speak!, as one of the people involved in the original Barrington Declaration I am not at all surprised by his gentle, sensible manner of delivery, the fact that he will not make any dogmatic assertions one way or another suggests to me that unlike far too many of the ideologues in positions of authority he is able to keep his mind open an continue to learn!. For some time now I have been pondering the implied meaning of the phrase 'made up my mind', is it actually fair to say that this is what people do when they think a conclusion must be reached now and if needed resort to imagination is appropriate, this in reference to the 'making up' bit suggesting that some element of fiction is allowed in the light of the urgency.
    From this I am now thinking that in all circumstances that act always implies a closing of the subject and end to the debate and this is something that is fundamentally alien to any scientist.
    Cheers, Richard.

    • @dominicbritt
      @dominicbritt 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Heneghan is a f£&kwit as described by Edmunds. He has no expertise in what was being discussed and his advice was followed on numerous occasions by Johnson instead follow what experts were advising - he’s the genius who suggested herd immunity, despite not understanding how it works…

    • @kerryburns6041
      @kerryburns6041 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "If you believe, you don´t think," a saying of the Lakota people.

    • @richardharvey1732
      @richardharvey1732 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@kerryburns6041 Hi Kerry Burns, thank you so very much for this reply!, you cannot begin to imagine just how pleased I am to see something that comes from those people, many years ago I came across a book that related much about their history band culture, my favourite has always been that while they had forty completely different words for different sort of rain, as in 'light rain with gentle breeze', one word, 'heavy rain with thunder and lightning', one word they had no words at all for could, should, if but or maybe!.
      At the time I was quite shocked but due consideration made me re-think so much of what I had just accepted, now while I do still use those terms I understand they have no 'real' meaning or relevance.
      I have now embarked on a policy of no longer ever 'making up my mind', as long as I can I am going to keep it open!.
      Cheers, Richard.

    • @kerryburns6041
      @kerryburns6041 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@richardharvey1732
      Thanks for your response, believing has been problematic for me too !
      A video I saw by a Lakota elder made quite an impression, he said their language contained no nouns.
      In my metaphysical reading I learn that naming things is a way of going from the immediate experience to the general classification, and consequently losing the moment of encounter and real recognition.
      It's a rose -- move on !
      (No! It is a miracle, unique!)
      Eliminating nouns, or not needing them in the first place, would indicate a different way of perceiving the world, a way which would render impossible the idea of plundering the planet.
      A way of sustaining a civilisation for 12 thousand years without leaving behind so much as an empty Coke can.
      I've just put the clocks back, and remembered the words of a wise chief who said only the Englishman would think that cutting a foot off the bottom of his blanket and sewing it to the top would result in a longer blanket.
      I don't know where we took the wrong turn, but we should have turned back long ago.
      Individually we can, collectively - I´m not so sure.
      The worst abominations have been committed by people who had made up their minds, people who should have realised that certainty was just a feeling.
      Rather unfortunate that they were in government.

    • @richardharvey1732
      @richardharvey1732 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@kerryburns6041 Hi Kerry Burns, thank you!, I can hardly believe this! are you really there am I dreaming!. A few weeks ago when the topic of personal pronouns was being aired I gave it some thought and announced that in my opinion the act of giving a person a name of any sort qualifies as a form of tyranny!. The attempt by one person to take control of another. Now here you are telling me that others have been there long before me!. On that subject of identity I am still a trifle conflicted, in my heart I would very much like to identify as Lakota but I am not sure I would be welcomed by them!.
      My wife and I here in Cambridge have just enjoyed a delightful visit from my thirty seven year old niece who is currently engaged in all sorts of interesting 'alternative' projects, in Scotland where she lives they have a government department responsible for the 'wellness economy' she is not at all sure those two things are compatible!.
      As far as I am concerned like so many other things in 'modern' culture concepts like 'economy' are pure fiction, there is no such thing!. The rerality of every living person's life is a complex of dynamic relationships no part of which sits still long enough to be counted!.
      I am also convinced that while the enabling aspects demonstrated by the exercise of 'power to' or ability are totally different from the authoritarian concepts of 'power over' where the best they can manage is to impede and interupt the effective actions of the peasants who should only ever do exactly as they are told!.
      Cheers, Richard.

  • @marksykes1191
    @marksykes1191 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    There has got to be some way that these people can be charged with criminal offences by our system , if not then it’s time we instigated this !

  • @camoTiara
    @camoTiara 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    So, an enquiry probably prevents a trial ?

  • @kxs7267
    @kxs7267 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is disturbing - but am I the only one who doesn't know which name goes with which face, or sometimes which names are even in play?
    That does make it hard to evaluate who is actually the f*wit!

  • @worldofameiso5491
    @worldofameiso5491 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Heneghan is one of the only scientists who has remained steady in his condemnation of the Covid pandemic government response.

  • @josefschiltz2192
    @josefschiltz2192 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Always be deeply sceptical about political 'shirt-tail' science. As with the court astrologers who always told the monarchs exactly what they wanted to hear.

  • @allanmurray9964
    @allanmurray9964 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Some excellent commentary here - if only some of you folks could have some influence or voice on our Govt. Just to clarify, I am being 100% genuine when i say this.

  • @itk2493
    @itk2493 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    'F***wit' sage, yep that sounds about right.

  • @yinoveryang4246
    @yinoveryang4246 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    All of these text messages really do read like a bunch of people with a very low level of emotional intelligence and maturity. Thats what we need to focus on, how these people got into power. (would possibly be worse right now if it was Labour_)

    • @johnm9845
      @johnm9845 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      On evidence of past thirteen years your supposition that it could have been worse under whoever is hard to sustain. Even a champion limbo dancer would find it impossible to manoeuvre under the very low bar set by the moronic, lying cretins posing as the present government.

  • @AdamDitheridge
    @AdamDitheridge ปีที่แล้ว +65

    Carl was one of the few scientists who talked any sense during covid....not following the bullshit narrative of the Govt or MSM. I salute him....

    • @tomricketts7821
      @tomricketts7821 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      I salute your cognitive dissonance and determination to hang onto your beliefs in the face of experts attempts to confuse you with the facts

    • @petetube13
      @petetube13 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@tomricketts7821I salute yours.

    • @joannemoore64
      @joannemoore64 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Iain Davies book Pseudo Pandemic..all the evidence backed up there.

    • @paulgibbon5991
      @paulgibbon5991 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I too like it when people feed my confirmation bias and blind cynicism.

    • @Simbosan
      @Simbosan 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      NO YOURS!!! MORE!!!! The scientist in question was a layperson with respect to virology and epidemiology. He made schoolboy errors in his analysis. But you still support him. It's not cognitive dissonance, it's your stupidity

  • @TheCNCDen
    @TheCNCDen ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Sounds more like the person asking the questions fits that description!

  • @Slarti
    @Slarti 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Carl Heneghan was a hero - level headed, methodical, rational and considered in his explanations.

  • @sizzla123
    @sizzla123 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    LMAO

  • @stephensmith799
    @stephensmith799 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    ‘Some Certainty’ is what Statisticians refer to as the ‘Confidence Level’. This is never complete certainty because this is unattainable in empirical sciences due to our inability to rule out unexpected eventualities known as ‘black swans’. Only deductive statements are 100% certain for which no research of any kind is necessary. Forecasts are however based on inferences which admit the possibility of alternative causes other than those supposed hypothetically.
    It is wrong to accuse modellers of certainty, and he knows it.
    The above is taught to students of statistics very early in their first year at university, or for that matter in school.
    This testimony makes me rather cross.

    • @paulgibbon5991
      @paulgibbon5991 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's also beloved of conspiracy theorists, because you can't prove Covid mortality rates, human climate change, the moon landings, or the Earth being round 100%, so "it's just a theory bro". And implicitly because it's not quite totally certain, we should be buying their particular fairy tales.

  • @kevinharrison4909
    @kevinharrison4909 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    They shot this guy down for not following their lets be charitable and say "views" while fergusons projections and models were later proved a lauging stock, along with his well known adventures in lockdown. If it was left to edmunds and ferguson we'd all still be incarcerated in our own homes on the advice of "experts". Edmunds always chose the sternest measures, paying total disregard to the socio-econmic impact, or it's damaging impact on mental health. My main beef is they didn't need a new bullshit "act" of law rushed throuigh the back door in a matter of days. The civii contingencies act 2004 would have covered all things covid however it didn't suit their "purposes".

    • @Nellsmum22
      @Nellsmum22 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Edmunds, of the screwed up face, announced in September 2020 that he wouldn't be seeing any of his elderly relatives at Christmas. I imagine they must have been delighted. He loved the power of lockdown, aka national house arrest, however, last year he said that the modelling he contributed to was "too scary" & the effects it would have on many aspects of life were not taken into account. Not just a screwed up face but TWO of them!

  • @GwynGerrig
    @GwynGerrig 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A so called 'Expert'. lols

  • @janegreen9340
    @janegreen9340 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Sadly no matter how many papers are published by an “expert” doesn’t mean that the information is correct. Too many conflicts of interest and lack of good peer reviews has left many of us distrusting the “science”. Whose “science” is it?

    • @mikehutchison4892
      @mikehutchison4892 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Hopefully,that which is based upon the scientific method.

    • @Anigmama
      @Anigmama 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He was not a ‘peer’ when he was reviewing anything, since it was not his area of expertise.

    • @sisuguillam5109
      @sisuguillam5109 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You mean you don't understand how science works?

  • @zumamaya2396
    @zumamaya2396 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Looks like another carefully edited piece of propaganda typical of the last few years. No context. No rebuttals.

  • @fatbelly27
    @fatbelly27 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Actually these are the wrong questions. Should be asking Heneghan about the things he got right 3:00. The modelling approach was clearly a disaster but no-one wanted to hear him saying that so they just ganged up on someone who went to the wrong school

    • @theotherside8258
      @theotherside8258 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The govt made a concious decision not to gather data at the detailed level that would help model transmission for covid or future diseases because it would cost a few million more - think it was about £4m.

    • @fatbelly27
      @fatbelly27 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@theotherside8258 How they treated data should be the subject of an inquiry in itself. I saw Professor Norman Fenton fuming on several occasions on the John Campbell channel. Don't know if he is being called to give evidence.

  • @Right_is_Wrong
    @Right_is_Wrong ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The cap seems to fit.

  • @hughjanus2020
    @hughjanus2020 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Just awful behaviour. This Covid inquiry is embarrassing. Hallett has put her name to this. Really?

  • @OghamTheBold
    @OghamTheBold ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Any examination of _current_ unexpected mortality

    • @markhedger6378
      @markhedger6378 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Don't hold your breath

    • @alanhat5252
      @alanhat5252 ปีที่แล้ว

      The ONS has been holding steady at about 100 Covid deaths per week for many months.

    • @paulgibbon5991
      @paulgibbon5991 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If you have peer-reviewed evidence that shows it to be above average in a way not connected to any other factors, please share it. But you don't, and you won't.

    • @alanhat5252
      @alanhat5252 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@paulgibbon5991 you think the ONS data is corrupt? Why do you think that?

    • @jimosullivan1389
      @jimosullivan1389 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@alanhat5252 ... because it was corrupted and manipulated....look up Prof Norman Fenton and Ivor Cummins...

  • @johnkean6852
    @johnkean6852 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This will be a big red embarassment to the current swollen pockets from B Harma shares and stocks deals.

  • @bsimpson6204
    @bsimpson6204 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    We would honestly be far better off without any goverment at all then have these CLOWNS at the helm. God help us!
    Don't imagine it would have been better under Labour because the wants even more!!!

  • @EMidMSO
    @EMidMSO ปีที่แล้ว +20

    So F'wit or otherwise, who was this man & what was his role/official position during Covid?

    • @thereisadog3717
      @thereisadog3717 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      He is someone who questioned the Covid narrative particularly the methodology and conclusions of the epidemiological models used throughout the pandemic.

    • @parametr
      @parametr ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Carl Heneghan.
      A GP who wrote tons of articles in the Telegraph against any lockdown and Covid in general.

    • @BillyBobJoeSnr
      @BillyBobJoeSnr ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@thereisadog3717As the referenced comment suggested; the F**wit...

    • @adamknight7041
      @adamknight7041 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      ​@@parametr
      He is an Epidemiologist as is Sunetra Gupta from Oxford CEBM who also dared to question the Covid narratives and got ridiculed on BBC Question Time and patronised by that famous "expert" Fiona Bruce. 😏

    • @alanhat5252
      @alanhat5252 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@adamknight7041 he seems to agree that he is _not_ an epidemiologist.

  • @dasraiser
    @dasraiser 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "'F***wit' scientist" missed the point, he shouldn't have even been consulted on the issue.

  • @davy_K
    @davy_K 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Groups can form an opinion which quickly becomes a "truth" - and any evidence to the contrary will annoy and aggravate - producing such comments as in that record. It's a hazardous thing to hold onto an opinion about a complex situation, particularly a changing one when data quality may not be as it should be and pressures of time are forcing decisions earlier than desired.

  • @michaelstanley3961
    @michaelstanley3961 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Fxxkwit, is better than I would describe....😂

  • @tomgardiner6584
    @tomgardiner6584 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The UK had world expert epidemiologists to call on such as Prof Sunetra Gupta of Oxford Uni, yet that relied on this man, with a track record of massive over-estimations of risk.

  • @JT-si6bl
    @JT-si6bl 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    @1:40 finly honed edge of a query that alludes to the Hippocratic Oath, yet with science and medicine for viruses (I also asked during 2020): why are 'you' not doing anything? The answer was this - 'in science and viral treatments, you assume nothing.' Can kinda see that being a hypocrisy off the bat given a void of ethical foundations has been mooted so far...

  • @murrayeldred3563
    @murrayeldred3563 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The 2 GRAND INQUISITORS De BLoJoism.....have to catch themselves when they want to break out in creases of laughter. Excellent Black Comedy. Could they be on the Panel of 'Come Dancing' when The Farage & The BLoJo do a Tango?

  • @LastPinster
    @LastPinster 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Put this sicko on the list peeps

  • @johncrombie497
    @johncrombie497 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ake it a legal inquiry

  • @kingfisherphil
    @kingfisherphil 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    the full range of science was not considered, we seem to have given carte blanche to one school of thought and as usual picked the wrong one!

  • @mayday3109
    @mayday3109 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Heneghan is a national treasure. Called out the nonsense from the start. Anyone lauding the KCs for the govt inquiry needs their head examining. You're supposed to use critical thinking, not baaa like lambs to the you know what... See his open letter to Baroness Hallett. Substack

  • @kbeetles
    @kbeetles ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What is this???

  • @umwhatthistime
    @umwhatthistime 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    why re all these people northerners?

  • @slashnburndotcodotuk
    @slashnburndotcodotuk 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    'Experts' need funding. Come to the 'WRONG' conclusion, Funds dry up...

  • @sybaseguru
    @sybaseguru ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Modelling is a joke. I've spent 50 years involved in it in many fields - Engineering, Finance, Climbing Everest, Human Resources etc. We can't model next weeks weather, never mind 50 years hence. Engineers can get close as they operate in a closed system and employ other cross-checks. The rest just help you understand how little you really know.

    • @davidrussell7105
      @davidrussell7105 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Unfortunately, unless you know a true clairvoyant who can precisely tell you what's going to happen, then model based predictions are unavoidable.
      And, if you have worked in engineering, then you will know that models are successfully and extensively used throughout industry.
      I used to build process models, used in advanced process control applications in industry. Im sorry your experience of models were always negative. But from my point of view, your experience is clearly limited!

    • @Andrew-rc3vh
      @Andrew-rc3vh 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@davidrussell7105 I agree. You stop using mathematics and you end up stupid.

    • @andrewnevermind4902
      @andrewnevermind4902 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Handy if you want to get the result you are looking for. For example, if you wanted to scare people into taking a safe and effective.

    • @Andrew-rc3vh
      @Andrew-rc3vh 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      By the way, did your modelling experience help you to notice the level of infections per area, as in the map of the UK the government provided, was executing a chaotic pattern? I mean that in the strict mathematical sense of the word chaotic. No one seemed to notice this, not even the experts, who were all convinced it was a neat linear system which followed the classic 'S' curve. You get chaotic behaviour in a system with non-linear feedback. This feedback function was psychological. It is well understood the weather system is also a chaotic system. Personally I don't think the virologists have a sophisticated enough grasp of mathematics. It was clear with careful study of the data.

  • @Do_Not_Comply_V
    @Do_Not_Comply_V 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Im going to sya this, is this all .snoke screen to pretend they're investigating something they're really not? We don't know what's real anymore.

  • @leemccourt1604
    @leemccourt1604 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Whoever this KC is, he’s amazing.

  • @ReedoTV
    @ReedoTV 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Inquiry: "What is the most recent model you've made?"
    Ferguson: "A space marine captain"

  • @Ettrick8
    @Ettrick8 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It's ok to accept alternative views but only if they are credible

    • @mayday3109
      @mayday3109 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      not about views, it's about data - that's what they didn't want to discuss, just name-call

  • @danielvella2549
    @danielvella2549 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It would be better to simply show the unedited testimony rather than heavily edited soundbites.

    • @mayday3109
      @mayday3109 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It's all on the Inquiry YT channel - this lot do great job of clipping best bits.

    • @danielvella2549
      @danielvella2549 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@mayday3109 clipping in a way that suits political tastes

  • @alexblue6991
    @alexblue6991 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    My age 71yr old I didn't get the covid vaccine or flu jab my immune system works just fine I have noticed in my area of Scotland more normally healthy young people having strokes and heart attacks after getting the covid vaccine

    • @ToothbrushMan
      @ToothbrushMan ปีที่แล้ว

      Well that's all sewn up then. You and you immune system are immune to Covid, and your personal testimony discredits all those peer reviewed papers in respected scientific journals

    • @Umbrey_Dunctum
      @Umbrey_Dunctum ปีที่แล้ว +17

      You actually observed them getting the vaccine and then studied their subsequent health progress and subjected your conclusions and concerns to a strict scientific analysis?

    • @MrCSutton
      @MrCSutton ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The cumulative thousands of comments under every TH-cam video about the drugs, from those who have been injured or lost loved ones, are all the evidence anyone sane needs about the harm they've done.

    • @Umbrey_Dunctum
      @Umbrey_Dunctum ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@MrCSutton Because YT comments beat a scientic study.

    • @ToothbrushMan
      @ToothbrushMan ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Umbrey_Dunctum No you idiot. Of course I didn't personally observe the outcomes of every vaccinated person. That would be stupid. Instead I trust the actual science. Because it's the science that DOES track the outcome of every single vaccinated person!

  • @pjconey
    @pjconey 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Brilliant. A GP on a panel of so called experts and he knows f@ck all about pandemics. Astounding.

    • @nicknewman7848
      @nicknewman7848 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      He wrote some papers about shoulder injuries and childhood cancer in Egyptian youths though! It's genuinely like a satirical comedy.

    • @theotherside8258
      @theotherside8258 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      he probably knew a tory mp

  • @EdMcF1
    @EdMcF1 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    He was hated as he told the truth.

    • @alanhobden8847
      @alanhobden8847 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      What truth was that then?

    • @philmckay9973
      @philmckay9973 ปีที่แล้ว

      aliens!@@alanhobden8847

    • @Seoras111
      @Seoras111 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@alanhobden8847That people would die by the thousands if we didn't do something about it. As it is more than a quarter of a million people died in the UK. That is because the F'wit politicians in Westminster didn't at all like the idea that it could potentially impact on their precious little earners.

    • @PostingCringeOnMain
      @PostingCringeOnMain ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You mean they chose someone with no particular expertise in virology or epidemiology because he was the only person they could find who'd support their narrative that we could survive a pandemic without any lockdowns or other measures? That we, alone, could be the only country on the entire planet that could get by without restrictions and the only person they could find who'd agree with that idea was someone who knows nothing about viral pandemic planning?

    • @Amigo_Music
      @Amigo_Music ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Seoras111 More than a quarter of a million died of what? Having a positive test within 28 days? Where did flu go in the winter of 2020/21?

  • @diogenesegarden5152
    @diogenesegarden5152 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It would appear that the ‘Kings for a day’ are being sent off to be sacrificed. This practice goes back to the time when an idiot was dressed up and treated as the King for a day and then killed as a sacrifice to protect the real King.

    • @theotherside8258
      @theotherside8258 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Well perhaps they always should be. KIngs for a day are almost certain to be incompetents' and have put themselves forward without caring about the damage they would do with their incompetence.

  • @parametr
    @parametr ปีที่แล้ว +9

    So annoying.
    Not all opinions are valid, much less so equal.
    If you don't know what you talk about and an expert comes around, he is more than welcome to qualify you as stupid or contemptible.

  • @cheebee2659
    @cheebee2659 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    😄

  • @alanhat5252
    @alanhat5252 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    @Opendemocracy, what are you trying to say here? I'm not getting a clear message & you haven't presented enough evidence for me to form my own opinion.

    • @meromorfu
      @meromorfu ปีที่แล้ว

      That's because you are used to be told what to think and what opinion to have. It will pass. Keep watching.

    • @alanhat5252
      @alanhat5252 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@meromorfu no, it's because there is not sufficient information to form an opinion, exactly as I said in my original comment.

    • @meromorfu
      @meromorfu ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@alanhat5252 I was messing with you. I agree with what you are saying, I got nothing from watching it. It is out of context and you are absolutely right.

  • @chriselliott726
    @chriselliott726 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    In case you are unclear, this man is Carl Heneghan and yes he is as described.

  • @bobjohnbowles
    @bobjohnbowles 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    So a man who is an 'expert' GP was overruling lifelong epidemiologists. Sounds to me like calling him a f*ckwit was being kind. I can think of a lot more salty things I would like to say to his face. Also, who appointed him to a position of authority, because they deserve the same epithets.

    • @donnchadhenglish2414
      @donnchadhenglish2414 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      He didn't have the power to overule anybody, unfortunately. He had an advisory role, I expect due to his credentials, 'Carl James Heneghan is a British general practitioner physician, a clinical epidemiologist and a Fellow of Kellogg College. He is the director of the University of Oxford's Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine and former Editor-in-Chief of BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine.' Somewhat more than a GP, or f@ckwitt. He was also correct.

  • @callumsmanu
    @callumsmanu 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Prison !!

  • @pgsats
    @pgsats 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The fools is basing his defence of his lack of knowledge
    On not considering his uneducated alternative facts