In further evidence that Government scientific advisers live in a fantasy world constructed from models that bear a tenuous relationship to real-world evidence, one of the U.K.’s most well-connected scientists, Sir Jeremy Farrar of the Wellcome Trust, has quit SAGE after criticising the Government for refusing to heed its alarmist, failed predictions. Sir Jeremy appears to be oblivious to the fact that, with reported infections dropping to under 34,000 on Tuesday, down 10% in a week, the modellers’ prognostications of doom have faltered once again. The Telegraph has more.
[I]t has emerged that Sir Jeremy resigned from SAGE at the end of last month.In a statement, he said Government scientists had come under “huge pressure” during the pandemic.
Sir Jeremy has previously said that he “seriously considered resigning from SAGE” a year ago, after the Government went against its advice to introduce a lockdown as cases rose last autumn.
In his book, published earlier this year, he wrote: “That was the darkest moment of the pandemic. I began to question the point of giving advice to a body that chose not to use it. There comes a time when you have to ask yourself, and the people you trust, whether you are complicit with the decisions that are made as a result.”
Sir Jeremy gave a statement to Sky News on Tuesday:
The COVID-19 crisis is a long way from over, with the global situation deeply troubling. The high levels of transmission seen in the U.K. remain concerning, but I stepped down as a participant of SAGE knowing ministers had been provided with most of the key science advice needed over the winter months. Throughout this crisis SAGE has provided vital evidence, and independent, expert, transparent advice to support the U.K. response, often under huge pressure.
He said his focus would now be on his work at the Wellcome Trust, supporting research to end the pandemic.
Last month, he urged people to take matters into their own hands, voicing concern at the lack of Government measures to control the virus.
In a tweet sent two weeks ago he called for a “Vaccine Plus” strategy, in which the public wear masks on public transport, in shops and indoor spaces, and try to use flexible work times, where possible.
“Minor modifications now can prevent rises in cases, deaths, new variants or need for Plan B. It is avoidable,” he tweeted.
The claim that “minor modifications now can prevent rises in cases, deaths, new variants or need for Plan B” has no evidence at all to back it up. Studies of real-world patterns of the spread of COVID-19 have found no significant relationship between interventions and outcomes. The idea that little changes to behaviour create large changes in viral transmission dynamics is a fantasy of modelling that bears no relationship to observed trends. It’s a modeller’s conceit, bequeathed to politicians in whose hands it becomes a licence for pre-emptive public health tyranny.
Mercifully, the Government has so far resisted the latest calls for new restrictions, and the downturn in reported infections despite not imposing further measures (just as happened with ‘Freedom Day’ in July) confirms that they are right to do so.
Sir Jeremy is a key ally of Dr Anthony Fauci in the U.S. and was part of the exposed conspiracy in spring 2020 to suppress and smear the lab leak theory of Covid origins. Such a revelation would have discredited mere mortals, and his departure from SAGE is overdue and welcome. Let us hope that some of his former colleagues, who are at least as culpable for SAGE’s hopeless record of calling for extreme measures on the basis of ropey models, do the decent thing and join him.
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Coincidence that he flounces out now just as Pfizer comes under scrutiny?
I hope these people are held accountable for their actions sooner or later.
Not only that, links with Fauci under increasing scrutiny.
More like he’s sees which way the wind is blowing and is jumping ship while he can. Whether he is still part of sage or not he can and will (one day) be held accountable for the massive damage he and his colleagues have wrought on this country and its people.
Puffed up with unjustified self-importance, frequently wrong and up to his ears in all sorts of dodgy things and people. Good riddance to one who had little worthwhile to contribute other than doomy prophesy and a keen eye to his own murky interests.
Good riddance.
That is a fine and commendable summary of this man’s utter uselessness.
A clear example of the traitorous oxygen thieves now operating against the people of this country.
This disgraceful piece of crud is without doubt guilty of crimes against humanity.
Susan Michie next? One can but hope!
Cheerio doom monger.
So just another cronie of the medical industrial complex,
“The COVID-19 crisis is a long way from over”.
Well it’s pretty much over in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Florida, Texas….Uttar Pradesh
Well anywhere really that didn’t follow the Chinese faux narrative, employed their existing Emergency Pandemic Response plan and ignored dodgy modellers with a track record of abject failure.
He was director of the Welcome Trust with Whitty and Ferguson, so say no more.
What’s your source for Chris Whitty and Neil Ferguson having been directors of the Wellcome Trust? Or is that not what you meant?
You needn’t worry about complicity, Jeremy. Your shadowy presence as an hysteria driver in league with Fauci is on record. I wonder how many deaths you have caused, how many businesses wrecked, how many lives made unlivable. There is a special place in hell for your ilk, those who lie and know they are lying and care not at all.
Farrar spent 17 years as director of an Oxford University research unit in Vietnam.
Strict on applying the Nuremburg Code, are they, top medical researchers in that country?
It’s a while back now, but some may be interested to hear that part of the mind control research that was carried out by the US in Vietnam is said to have been taken over almost lock stock and barrel by the side that the US lost the war to…
What’s the real reason he left SAGE?
And did he jump before he was pushed. Either way, good riddance.
Bye.
Total narcisist.
Details also available at the Daily Fail with no paywall;
‘scientist quits SAGE over UK’s ‘concerning’ Covid infection rates
https://mol.im/a/10158061
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Sounds like he is one of those to be found in the Common Room of epidemiological modellers (at Ferguson’s ICL, and elsewhere) chortling over their favourite joke:
Q: How many epidemiological modellers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: None, because with epidemiological modellers, the light never goes out!
Out of interest: the Wellcome Trust owns a juicy portfolio of marinas, including Britain’s three largest: Brighton, Chichester, and Port Solent.
I think the rats are fleeing the sinking ship.
I so hope so, there are lot more that I hope will follow!
The truth is that government has listened far too much to the likes of Farrar, and we’ve been on the receiving end and paying the price. By paying attention to him, most of us have had our faces pushed into ever further immiseration.
Just think how many times the BBC have wheeled him on to further the psy-op they have been conducting on us.
A lockdown fanatic, he praises New Zealand for their fascist approach.
Continually pushing for all our kids to be jabbed up, and talking about vaccinating them as far back as mid-April, 2020.
Purveyor of the ‘no one is safe until we are all safe’ philosophy.
Farrar and the Wellcome Trust both operate on the dark side.
The twit should learn to differentiate between advice and orders.
Presumably, he’s ok and got his Waitrose delivery slot. Probably a live in maid and country pile to isolate in from which he can work from home.Covid has a side errect: it makes you want to vomit.
Sir Jeremy will doubtless get a warm welcome back to The Wellcome Trust, a dodgy medical research foundation with links to global corruption throughout the COVID-19 crisis as well as to the UK eugenics movement.
With luck, he might even be invited to join the DARPA-led team working on the ‘Wellcome Leap’ project to usher in nightmarish surveillance and control of all our children from the age of three. Sounds right up the good knight’s street.
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/06/investigative-reports/a-leap-toward-humanitys-destruction/
Headline should read –
Disgruntled liar throws his toys out of the pram for being caught out.
“Government scientific advisers live in a fantasy world”
Sadly not true. They live in the real world in which they fuck up our lives and wield great power and attract funding by lying through their teeth, most likely with the approval of the governments they serve.
The governments they serve? I think it’s the other way round.
You can run but you can’t hide Farrar. The law and the people will finally catch up with you and your ilk. The damage you and your kind have caused is almost beyond comprehension. And it was all planned wasn’t it.
Don’t forget Farrar has previous – he was heavily involved in attempts to ramp up hysteria over that other non-event – Swine flu.
“Huge pressure, eh?”
Tell that to the single parent with 3 young kiddies locked in a small flat for best part of 6 months.
Or the person whose business, built over a lifetime, was needlessly destroyed.
B@stard.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Oh and nowadays anybody with “Sir” in front of their name sounds dodgy to me. Clearly had his nose stuck up someone’s bottom somewhere along the line.
Jimmy Saville (Sir) comes to mind.
No, scientists did not come under pressure, the public came under imprisonment thanks to bozos like you, mediaeval witch doctors masquerading as scientists.
Your recommendations of communism were disastrous and you approved of thst disaster.
These SAGE apparatchiks will meet their nemesis when they are found guilty of Crimes Against Humanity.
Abusers always say ‘I’m violating your freedoms for your own good’
“Well connected” a.k.a. one totally useless knob who only speaks with other totally useless knobs
Minor typing error, perhaps? “..supporting research to end the pandemic.” Maybe it should be ‘to make a profit’ ?
“We must do more” is hard to argue for if the metrics are going the wrong way.
However, by leaving and things start going south again at some point (which they probably will to some degree) he can start making claims that he should have been listened to and that he was right to leave Sage.
The cess is starting to leak from under the cover up rug, Fauci is going to go down, but I suspect not for what he has done regarding Wuhan, gain of function and the vaxxine, but a story is emerging about gross mistreatment of puppy beagles used for experiments, which he authorised. In other words like Cuomo he will be made to leave but not for the crimes against humanity, I suspect this SAGE advisor see’s the writing on the wall and is covering his own back,
In the redacted still censored e mails Farrar is in with Fauci day 1 to hide the origin of this pandemic.His departure has perhaps more to do with this. The other thing is smokescreen
“Incredible that Jeremy Farrar is still pontificating on such matters when he refuses to detail his central role in the scientific establishment’s cover-up on the pandemic origins.”
https://twitter.com/ianbirrell/status/1455647459321987075
Can we please stop pandering to these so-called scientists by calling model output ‘evidence’. It is absolutely not!
That is the picture of a man who is in love with himself….an ego that is fed by hubris and money; a man in cahoots with Fauci the fraud is tainted goods. He is still spinning the line fed by Gates that the ‘pandemic’ is far from over…” going right through (to) 2022..” They are desperate not to lose the narrative created back in January 2020 but it is slipping through their grubby criminal compromised fingers.
He is typical of the scientists the government has been taking advice from over the past 2 years.
These idiot savants only have their narrow viewpoint and cannot understand concepts outside their own discipline such as public health, risk, choice, freedom, etc. If you are a hammer everything looks like a nail.
I am sure a road safety “expert” would like to see zero traffic on the roads or a blanket 10 mph speed limit; there would of course be zero deaths but our whole economy and way of life would collapse.
For goodness’ sake, don’t give them ideas!
Catch the rat before it gets away!
Has he realised yet that the ”pandemic” is over? And that that bunch should now be called SAG?
Not the brightest button in the box, is he? A title doesn’t make one competent – and who on earth thought he was worth knighting? What a horrible little ‘man’.
Yet again, the lunacy is based firmly on their god like misconception that an air borne respiratory disease is controllable. But they are not gods
They must know that it’s not controllable – but they are in thrall to the ‘narrative’ and well-paid to be so too. So that they’re even prepared to sacrifice what few principles they have. There’s no ”misconception” – that’d be forgivable. They’re not forgivable.
DELUSIONAL ARROGANCE!!!
“ I began to question the point of giving advice to a body that chose not to use it.”
Why should the executive automatically follow the advice of mere advisors of just one aspect of the overall picture? Who does he think he is?
I wonder where his funding comes from.
Another fantasist bites the dust.
Very fortuitous for Sir Farrar to join Wellcome Trust at this particular time given, as far I can understand, it is set to profit from the ‘pandemic’
Good. Now if all the rest of the Sage numpties also fuck off, perhaps we can have some actual science to follow.
Good riddance!
Please get stuck in the revolving door on the wat out.
The bloke is a 100% useless, lying chunt who will be rotting in jail soon
Oh how these Chunts snigger when they hear us saying anything about justice being done.
The Wellcome Trust…
Sir Jeremy Farrar of the Wellcome Trust.. there’s no need to say more..
He knows he picked the wrong side of history and is jumping ship to try and minimise his punishment come the Trials.
In ancient Israel false prophets were to be stoned to death. The reason of course is they would lead people to go down dangerous paths and blame god for it. Hmm, not saying we should reinstitute such for modelers but, we would probably get better models and lot having our society and economy undone for no good reason (Covid and Climate Change as latest examples).