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#BMJ lashes out at #UK ‘state corruption’ and ‘suppression of science’
The highly-respected medical journal hit out at the "politicisation of science" in an article lashing out at #Tory cronyism.

The #coronavirus pandemic has “unleashed state corruption on a grand scale” that is “harmful to public health”, a scathing editorial in medical journal the #BMJ has said. In an unusually political intervention for the highly-respected scientific publication,

it warns that politicians are “suppressing #science” and accuses the #government of “opportunistic embezzlement”
“The #pandemic has revealed how the medical-political complex can be manipulated in an emergency – a time when it is even more important to safeguard #science,”

or the ‘Suppression of #science’
It zeroes in on four examples of “suppression of science or scientists”. Firstly, the secrecy that initially surrounded the membership and deliberations of the Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies ( #SAGE),

“ #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,” the article says.

“ #Politicisation of #science was enthusiastically deployed by some of history’s worst autocrats and #dictators, and it is now regrettably commonplace in democracies.

“The medical-political complex tends towards suppression of science to aggrandise and enrich those in power.

And, as the powerful become more successful, richer, and further intoxicated with power, the inconvenient truths of science are suppressed.

“When good science is suppressed, people die.”

by Henry Goodwin