1/n @allisonpearson, columnist whips up a storm against a microbiologist, & threatens legal action, because his abject apologies, multiple, & deletion of tweets, weren't good enough for her.

So let's look at @allisonpearson's record on the truth.

https://twitter.com/allisonpearson/status/1345890182424391681
2/n You might come away from these exchanges thinking that @allisonpearson is a vicious & vindictive person who can't handle disagreement. But that would be irrelevant to the question of how truthful she is. So let's look at that.
#AllisonPearson.
https://twitter.com/allisonpearson/status./1345837176790142979
3/n @allisonpearson doesn't have a great record on truth regarding the lies thrown about autism being 'caused' by MMR vaccinations; she's listed by @spikedonline among "Gullible hacks: journalists duped by the anti-MMR campaign" https://www.spiked-online.com/2007/07/17/the-dark-art-of-the-mmr-autism-scare/
The dark art of the MMR-autism scare

As Andrew Wakefield appears at the GMC, spiked traces the efforts of a shabby scaremongering caravanserai to continue peddling a panic.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2007/07/17/the-dark-art-of-the-mmr-autism-scare/
4/n @allisonpearson doesn't think British hospitals, i.e. the NHS, can cope with the "influx of migrants". She leaves out all the migrants and so on, who actually worked or still work for the NHS, without whom the NHS would really be in trouble. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2016/03/16/our-schools-and-hospitals-simply-cannot-cope-with-the-influx-of/
Our schools and hospitals simply cannot cope with the influx of migrants - that's why we must leave...

This morning, I head to Westminster to make a speech in favour of Brexit at Voices for Britain.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2016/03/16/our-schools-and-hospitals-simply-cannot-cope-with-the-influx-of/
5/n @allisonpearson relayed an absolute lie about a photo, and told an absolute lie, when she claimed a photo of a sick boy in Leeds hospital was "100% faked". She deleted many of her own tweets then. Did she ever apologise?
#AllisonPearson https://uk.news.yahoo.com/sick-boy-leeds-hospital-nhs-101427982.html
'Monstrous' accusation that photo of sick boy on hospital floor was staged refuted

The picture of Jack Williment-Barr was widely circulated on social media.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/sick-boy-leeds-hospital-nhs-101427982.html
6/n Let's look together at very recent claims of @allisonpearson's. Because I'm saying the claim below is a direct lie.

https://twitter.com/allisonpearson/status/1344946531691094017
7/n I'll add that the below is a direct lie too. @allisonpearson is yet once again downplaying deaths from #COVID19; but then, as we shall see, she has quite a record of nontruthfulness on COVID_19. Meanwhile, the UK hospitals are filling up badly.

https://twitter.com/allisonpearson/status/1322105842091626496
8/n Before more recent lies: your reminder that @allisonpearson wrote this ("Is the Government going to go on pretending ...") in November. Now the UK hospitals are filling up again, & people will soon start dying again, from #COVID19.

https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1328795109891182594
9/n @allisonpearson directly claimed she did not post against "lockdowns, tracing and quarantine". As we shall see, that is simply grossly untrue. But here she is, posting against face-masks, in July.
#AllisonPearson
https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1283313952504655873
10/n Remember, @allisonpearson expressly claimed she did not post against "lockdowns, tracing and quarantine". Here is #AllisonPearson directly relaying a fakenews photo (it's NOT of an NHS ward) & yet another lie about what #COVID19 will do to the UK
https://twitter.com/allisonpearson/status/1343646609893175296
11/n @allisonpearson pretends that "Children are perfectly safe ... not affected by Covid". Either a direct lie, or just utter idiocy from #AllisonPearson, you be the judge. Children pass on #COVID19 to others, & they get it too; long-term effects unknown
https://twitter.com/allisonpearson/status/1343490127792844801
12/n @allisonpearson expressly claimed not to be involved in a hate-campaign against the NHS.
#AllisonPearson just retweeted these two bits of unbased drivel hating on the NHS *as a whole*.
So Pearson's direct claim might well be considered a lie.
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