Covid-19: politicisation, “corruption,” and suppression of science | The BMJ

“The UK’s pandemic response relies too heavily on scientists and other government appointees with worrying competing interests, including shareholdings in companies that... https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4425
Covid-19: politicisation, “corruption,” and suppression of science

When good science is suppressed by the medical-political complex, people die Politicians and governments are suppressing science. They do so in the public interest, they say, to accelerate availabi...

https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4425
... manufacture covid-19 diagnostic tests, treatments, and vaccines.17 Government appointees are able to ignore or cherry pick science—another form of misuse—and indulge in anti-competitive practices that favour their own products and those of friends and associates”.
I’ve occasionally questioned the sci judgement of people on SAGE. I’ve been around, and made, decisions potentially involving a billion dollars more than once. Never did I or anyone I worked with make a decision primarily to enrich ourselves. Anyone doing that invites jail.
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