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i met and chatted with Chris Whitty and heard him speak and read his work well before he was CMO. He is a really decent, lovely, extremely bright &knowledgeable man and highly respected by peers. It is really sad to see the amoun of vile abuse he is getting just for doing his job
also worth pointing out that infectious diseases medicine/epidemiology is his area of career expertise and he is a still a practising doctor when he gets the chance so he might just know more than Barry from face book who has two friends who are nurses (so he claims)
also. How biomedical science Uni research depts work - they get external research grants from government agencies but also from research charities and sometimes charitable bequests/trust funds. This is NORMAL. The money does not go straight into the pockets of the academics
so this nonsense about "Whitty received £40m from the Gates Foundation" - well if the research unit he is a part of received a grant (which by the way would be subject to considerable ethical and regulatory scrutiny & transparency both at charitable and university end.
So what?
So what?
it isn't a bank transfer into the CMO's personal account, people! What next? "He received £3m from the National Institute for Health Research so is clearly in the pockets of Matt Hancock"? It is just nonsense
back in the day, industrialists, philanthropists who gave a huge amount of their money away for charitable purposes whether education, research, healthcare, social housing, prison reform etc would have been feted for it. Bizarre to spin this into a scandal
