COVID-19

[David L]

Yes, the BBC has received serious criticism for allowing Malhotra (who by the way wasn't actually invited to talk about the vaccines) to disseminate disinformation.

Useful Reuters piece fact-checking the Malhotra comments:

https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-vaccines-excessdeaths/fact-check-no-evidence-covid-19-mrna-vaccines-are-significant-contributing-factor-to-uks-30000-excess-cardiovascular-deaths-idUSL1N3490M3

BMJ:

"Industry money saturates the globe's regulators"

https://www.bmj.com/content/377/bmj.o1538

[Slim]

Do you think that Professor Openshaw has been paid to compromise his own professional opinion on the BBC and elsewhere? In any case the article you linked there refers to drug regulators, and that's not where scientific consensus arises from.

[David L]

Do you think that Professor Openshaw has been paid to compromise his own professional opinion on the BBC and elsewhere?

Wouldn't be the first 

[David L]

Hmm, has Chris Whitty been telling porkies?

https://twitter.com/esthermcvey1/status/1617874878379565057

[David L]

Probably the best decision I've ever made regarding my own health:

[Slim]

No, I'm sure that's disinformation. Nurse Campbell is usually debunked quickly now that the credible science community is on to him.

[David L]

No, I'm sure that's disinformation. Nurse Campbell is usually debunked quickly now that the credible science community is on to him.

Debunked by the fact checkers?
 

[Slim]

Yes, legitimate fact checkers.

[David L]

This is especially for you, Slim ( ).

An interesting and somewhat enlightening interview with the member for NW Leicestershire. I doubt many know that Bridgen studied Biological Sciences at Nottingham University specialising in genetics (coincidentally, given his present situation, his final dissertation was on viruses and viroids).
Obviously Covid is covered (later on) but I had no idea about the part he played over twelve years to get justice for those sub-postmasters that were victims of the Horizon scandal due to its affect on one of his constituents.

[Slim]

One of Campbell's misinformation videos analysed here:

https://healthfeedback.org/claimreview/studies-covid-19-vaccination-doesnt-increase-risk-death-misleading-video-europe-excess-death-john-campbell/

Won't stop Campbell making a fortune out of the frightened and gullible, of course.

[David L]

Booked your booster yet, Slim?

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-people-urged-to-book-booster-appointments-before-vaccine-programme-scaled-down-12802437

[David L]

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-problem-with-the-bbcs-reporting-on-excess-deaths/

[Slim]

Booked your booster yet, Slim?

This is about the fourth time you've asked me that. Why do you feel it's important? Do you imagine that something in your stance will have been vindicated if I haven't?

My views on the vaccines are pretty clear in my mind. I don't enjoy them, I'm very confident that they lessen the risk of health complications, but the risk - to me - is very small either way. I do recognise that there was a civic and moral duty to be vaccinated during the crisis period of the pandemic rather than be carried by those who were, but the circumstances are different now.

[David L]

Booked your booster yet, Slim?

This is about the fourth time you've asked me that. Why do you feel it's important? Do you imagine that something in your stance will have been vindicated if I haven't?

My views on the vaccines are pretty clear in my mind. I don't enjoy them, I'm very confident that they lessen the risk of health complications, but the risk - to me - is very small either way. I do recognise that there was a civic and moral duty to be vaccinated during the crisis period of the pandemic rather than be carried by those who were, but the circumstances are different now.

[Slim]

Sorry?