In our new book published this week — The Accountability Deficit — we reveal that senior officials at the Department for Health and Social Care sidelined and then demobilised the Government’s committee of expert ethics advisors at the height of the pandemic and following a series of unwelcome challenges to the Government’s policy ambitions.
With a trail of evidence lifted from official published records, we document the brief life and premature demise of the Government’s expert group of moral and ethical advisors known as MEAG. Two former members of MEAG agreed to be interviewed and quoted about what happened, provided they were not named.
UsForThem – the organisation we founded to raise awareness of the plight of children and young people in the pandemic – approached almost all of the major U.K. daily and Sunday newspapers with this story. Most of them acknowledged its significance. Three were keen to publish articles. Two got as far as writing it up, and one proposed to run it on the front page. In each case though, the story was dropped at the last minute without a cogent explanation. This is odd, because the paper trail for the entirety of this story is in public records and so is capable of full verification.
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The genesis of MEAG
At the outset of the pandemic MEAG, the Moral and Ethical Advisory Group of approximately 20 experts selected as leaders in their fields of medicine, ethics, law, social science and religion, was tasked with advising ministers and senior officials on the challenging ethical aspects to decisions that would need to be taken. The DHSC was to convene weekly meetings of that group.
The three years of MEAG’s official existence coincided with a complex pandemic response which included lockdowns, mass school closures, mass population testing, the Covid vaccine rollout and related passports, and the vaccination of children. Each of these policies involved weighty ethical considerations, so one might have expected the Government’s advisory group on ethical issues to play a central role during this period; and for it to have been vocal and instrumental in setting ethical guardrails for legally and ethically robust policy decisions.
Early disappointment
Yet after having first felt to be “in demand”, according to one of our sources, by September 2020 MEAG members appeared disillusioned by a lack of engagement from the Government and so resolved in one of their meetings to “reach out proactively to senior civil servants in key policy areas” including the vaccination programme, mass testing and the impact of the pandemic on cancer screenings. Just a fortnight later, the DHSC appears to have clipped MEAGs wings by directing that it should shift its focus “to response work, acting as a constructive sounding board”. ‘Speak when spoken to, and be more constructive’ appears to have been the message.
An unexpected intervention
Following its final meeting of the year in December 2020, during which the public record shows that MEAG raised serious ethical concerns about the Government’s plans to launch a Covid status certificate or pass, the group reconvened in January to find that Chris Whitty, the CMO, had reportedly spoken with one of the Co-Chairs of MEAG and “counselled against producing documentation that offered recommendations, given the political aspect of decision making”.
In other words, the CMO appears to have instructed MEAG not to put its recommendations in writing including, presumably, its views on Covid status certification. We do not know whether Whitty gave this instruction on his own initiative or as a messenger, but this is all the more surprising in light of Professor Whitty’s oral evidence to the Covid Inquiry this week about the imperative for SAGE to conduct its business with formally minuted discussions: “I was very firmly of the view that… [conversations] were much better done… where the scientific debate could be had with all the right people in a minuted conversation.”
Thereafter, MEAG’s meetings became infrequent. Our MEAG sources confirmed to us that this was a disappointment for the group’s members: “Initially the Government had seemed very accepting of our advice — as things went on they seemed to want to do what they wanted to do for other reasons,” said one.
A second wind…
In February 2021, the group sought to re-establish its voice by recording that “The ethics of vaccinating children would be an appropriate topic for MEAG to consider in the future”, and adding that “The Group agreed that where possible it would like to consider future items early on to maximise MEAG’s ability to aid decision-making”.
DHSC and Cabinet Office officials later scheduled a meeting of MEAG for June 2021 to discuss the planned vaccination of children. In advance of that meeting, some members of MEAG circulated a memo which has never been published. We understand that memo referenced the rapid rate at which adults had been vaccinated, recognised that vaccination could save lives but also cautioned that children needed to be thought about separately, not least because the Covid vaccines are invasive, irreversible and may have long-term side effects which have yet to be identified. The memo reportedly also challenged the purpose of vaccinating children, questioned the known benefits and harms for individual children, and called for urgent consideration of the issues.
… short lived
But the DHSC apparently cancelled the meeting on the day it was due to take place, ostensibly because the JCVI was thought to be preparing to advise against the mass rollout of Covid vaccines to children. Though the rollout to children nevertheless went ahead a few months later, the meeting with MEAG was never reconvened.
MEAG was not then asked to meet for the entire summer period of 2021. This was a surprising moment for MEAG to be given an extended break by the DHSC: the Government was grappling with the hot potato of Covid status certification; a chaotic programme of testing and repeated self-isolations of children was being pilloried by politicians, experts and parents as unfair and unethical; and the JCVI was still considering whether to recommend the mass vaccination of children – all of which engaged material moral and ethical considerations.
MEAG was never given its chance to discuss the moral and ethical considerations of vaccinating children against Covid, despite the JCVI having confirmed that ethical considerations would form no part of its advice on vaccination strategy.
Restrained then retired
MEAG was reconvened on just three further occasions, but its attention was conspicuously directed away from the pandemic. In September 2021 as the U.K.’s four CMOs were controversially being asked to reconsider the JCVI’s decision to decline to recommend a mass vaccination of 12 to 15 year olds – one of the most contentious ethical decisions of the pandemic – MEAG was asked to advise on the topic of virginity testing.
In October, as the controversial Covid passes debate was crescendoing, MEAG was asked to advise on an extension to the statutory storage limits for eggs, sperm and embryos. And then in December 2021, as attention moved to the ethically contentious question of whether the Covid vaccination programme should be extended to five year-olds, MEAG was asked to advise on the use of artificial intelligence in medical imaging.
These were the last meetings of MEAG. “[The DHSC] just didn’t send any further business,” explained one of our sources. “I think in the end they realised that you can’t have a moral and ethical committee without trespassing on things that ministers think are political judgements… and that’s why it was shut down,” said another. MEAG was formally — and quietly — disbanded in October 2022.
Ethical vacuum
In the absence of MEAG’s input from June 2021 onwards, it is far from clear how the moral and ethical implications of policy decisions were adequately identified and taken into account in the Government’s pandemic decisions. There appears to have been an ethical vacuum at the heart of U.K. pandemic policy-making.
We might have expected the Covid Inquiry to have probed the role of ethics and ethical advice in the Government’s decision-making processes, perhaps particularly during its questioning this week of senior officials. As The Accountability Deficit explains, though, surprisingly the only mention of ethics and MEAG during the inquiry’s hearings so far has been to imply a more prominent role for the group than the evidence suggests it ever had.
We believe this may be one of the most damning untold stories of the pandemic: it seems that ethics were not just disregarded at key moments in the pandemic, but that ethical advice from the country’s leading experts was suppressed, and those experts were then shut down, apparently for the crime of speaking truth to power. The result was a pandemic response which at times seemed to lack any ethical guardrails.
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I am sorry for his loss and everybody else that have suffered harms taking these so called vaccines. Big Pharma need to be sued out of existence, there should be no tax payer liability for these companies to hide behind.
There will be no standing ovations at Wimbledon I suspect this year.
I agree but the problem being that now we are well and truly existing in Clown World, the very criminal organizations responsible for manufacturing these death shots are making yet more ( many more! ) mRNA death shots as we speak. Welcome to Clown World, where the murderers get to keep on producing their bioweapons of mass destruction, just for way more diseases this time! Justice? I wish. A very sick and twisted position to be in, that’s for sure.
The fact that Moderna are setting up labs in the UK, Canada and Australia is not a comforting prospect.
All part of the corruption and bribery. Will be joyful to watch them close and lose hundreds of millions in tax money….blamed on ‘hesitancy’ or ‘climate’ thingy.
Exactly. The proven “highly effective” ( at killing/disabling/illness-inducing ) mRNA bioweapon is not going anywhere, on the contrary. Which rather begs the question; how can we expect the Pharma companies to ever face justice and be found guilty of crimes against humanity whilst they’re simulateously cranking out more gene therapies like there’s no tomorrow? It’s not possible is it? It’s why I’m saying don’t hold your breath if you’re out for justice from that quarter.
Below, Dr Malone lists the 13 mRNA trials now completed and which diseases they’re for, but there are even more still ongoing or recruiting:
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/rna-vaccine-clinical-trials
Companies are protected against paying – the tax payer will get the bill.
Unless perhaps the government reveal that the companies lied.
If this gains traction I think that’s the route the government will go.
They could reasonably claim they indemnified them on the basis of the data they provided.
Now said data has been shown to be wrong/completely falsified I think they’d have a strong case to remove that protection
Yes, but it was the Government/health agencies that rolled out the vax program knowing full well this was an experimental vax that had not undergone normal safety trials.
Tying in to the many ways the gene therapies negatively impact health, if not outright kill you, I thought this ‘stack by Sasha Latypova very interesting. It’s her latest hypothesis based off of the evidence of plasmid contamination by Kevin McKernon plus research done by Dr Hazan on the microbiome, a 7min video featuring the latter is well worth a watch as she explains her research findings.
”So, here we have it all: the mechanism of weaponization of the mRNA/DNA “injections” is the same or largely similar to what is described in books on weaponizable biotechnologies: transfection of cells by delivery of RNA + “DNA contaminants” into the cells and induction of dysbiosis, which will in turn cause cascades of many chronic illnesses. This mechanism is now confirmed to be included in Pfizer and Moderna vials by direct testing with sequencing techniques by a highly experienced genomics scientist.
If we look at the seasonal respiratory illnesses as being initiated by imbalances of microbiome, and their symptoms (fever, cough, congestion, etc) as “healing crises” – body’s way of trying to re-establish the balance, then a bioweapon would need to be able to trigger the microbiome imbalance in large numbers of people. I am getting more convinced that this is what happened with “covid”. It was a way to trigger microbiome imbalances (with some unusual symptoms) by deploying large quantities of cloned purified RNA materials in the environment which would be picked up by inhalation/ingestion or perhaps transdermally. They would only last for a short period of time before degrading as RNA clones do not replicate and do not have cellular machinery to maintain themselves. These are not living organisms, they are simply genetic “spam mail” messages that all living things combat and try to get rid of. Since this material was cloned (purified), it would produce just enough consistent signature on (highly upcycled and manipulated) PCR and thus appear as a “new virus” for purposes of lying to the public about the existence of a viral pandemic.”
https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/design-of-a-weapon-modifying-the
It’s sad that so many people have believed in the blatant lies promoting the use of this product, and that of the other pharmaceutical companies, and their agents. The other difficulty into the future is the question of confidence in other novel methods of treatment for whatever.
It’s the case that the mRNA treatments were carefully named as “vaccines” in order to avoid the much more stringent requirements for gene therapy treatments.
The pharmaceutical companies may well carry this forward especially with the US military pushing for such methods.
Paula Jones’s article at The Conservative Woman site shows that the pressure for these treatments came from within the military and has been in train for 20 years
Agreed. They have tweaked the definition of “vaccine”, and also took advantage of Emergency Use Authorisation (EUA) to circumvent the methods required for any new drug assessment. What they have also done is to exploit the common understanding of what a vaccine should do, and avoided clearly explaining the reality of it. Things like the posters advertising it to the general public were blatant lies, worse than typical election posters.
Especially when you think of the survivability of the individual who catches covid. It seems you have more chance of vaccine injury than any long term effects of the virus.
This is a very thorough review of the ‘vaccines’ safety by a new author with an interesting bio.
He also has a similar piece on effectiveness there, whose conclusions I partially disagree with, but which is still worth reading. https://www.unz.com/article/how-safe-are-the-covid-vaccines/#4-heart-studies
Some (clickbait) highlights and his main conclusions:
“The bottom line is that the Pfizer and Moderna clinical trials made it clear from the beginning that both vaccines cause much more harm than good. Everyone in authority knew this in November 2020, but they all said the opposite….
In fact, I have a lot more sympathy for the CEOs of Pfizer and Moderna than I do for the average doctor who recommended the vaccine to his patients…
…I believe there are two kinds of people in this world – those who would lie for $100M and admit it, and those who would lie for $100M but will not admit it which is another lie. So, I forgive Albert Bourla and Stephane Bancel for their lies.
I don’t forgive the average MD. They had very little to lose by telling the truth to the patients who trusted them. Maybe they would have gotten in some trouble, perhaps even losing their privileges at their hospital, if word got out that they recommended their young and healthy patients not take the vaccine. So, maybe the financial cost to them would have amounted to thousands of dollars. But it’s pathetic to sell your soul for thousands of dollars. That’s like trading your birthright for a mess of pottage. Those doctors are despicable. Selling your soul for millions or billions of dollars, like Albert Bourla and Stephane Bancel did, is just human nature. You can’t really blame them for doing that…
In hindsight, anyone concerned about their heart probably should have avoided the Covid vaccine at all costs, including dropping out of college or quitting their job if necessary…
My conclusions from the research above are:
1. The vaccines are harmful. Obviously, the FDA should remove them from the market as they would normally do with any product that was even a fraction as dangerous. People in government and pharma need to go to jail for the deaths they caused.
2. However, this doesn’t mean that every vaccinated individual was severely harmed, or even harmed at all. For young people, Covid itself causes almost no injuries or deaths, and the vaccines probably cause few. For the elderly, Covid sometimes leads to pneumonia and death, but in most cases it is just a very bad cold. The vaccines are probably worse than that – in some cases deadly, but in most cases not. The vaccines are bad, but not apocalyptic.
3. Of course, you can’t directly compare getting Covid with getting vaccinated because you can’t choose between them. If the vaccines worked perfectly, and vaccinated people never caught Covid, then you could choose one and not the other, although even then being unvaccinated and catching Covid is probably safer than getting vaccinated and preventing Covid. But that’s not how the vaccines work in real life. The vaccines make you more likely to catch Covid, not less likely (the subject of my other paper). So, the choice people actually face is a) remain unvaccinated and suffer a chance of catching Covid, or b) get vaccinated, possibly be harmed by the vaccine, and then suffer a greater chance of catching Covid, which can also hurt you. The risks are not separable, they are additive. This is not a hard choice.”
And the matter explained in 3 is not well advertised, of course. Most of us should know that a branch of “common colds” are Covid, although the term was not normal in the past – about a quarter of cases, roughly, although many are not recorded at all. What is not clear is whether the Covid-19 jab increases the risk of being infected by either other coronaviruses, or any other type of infection. Not only that, there seem to be quite a few occurrences of neurological injury as well.
For the elderly, Covid sometimes leads to pneumonia and death, but in most cases it is just a very bad cold.
Or a not so bad cold. Or nothing at all. Pneumonia is a perfectly normal and usually harmless (the NHS recommend rest and drinking lots of fluids for the ordinary case) complication of respiratory infections. In 2021, an acquaintance of my mother in her late seventies was hospitalized twice because pneumonia, once because of COVID and a second time because of something else. She survived without intensive care both times and got married in between so that her partner of some years wouldn’t again be told that he must not visit her in hospital because he’s not related to her.
One big problem with this – we have a long wait before we are in possession of long-term safety data.
True, but he addresses that too in the full article.
Just like organ donation, there should be a grass roots campaign for NHS users to carry a card stating they will not subject themselves to any treatments / drugs / jabs involving mRNA manufacturing processes.
Just say no. En masse.
DT also carried this story, permitting comments until late last night. These were striking in 3 ways – the degree to which people had woken up (a short 1000 comments), the categoric views, and the personal experience of jab harms.
Comments wiped this morning, but one glimpsed a tsunami.
Wiped? Bastards.
At a guess, behind their paywall so no chance of the Wayback machine having a record.
That’s a regular occurrence at the Telegraph, some time back I emailed their ‘investigation desk’ asking if they could investigate where my comments had gone, sadly I received no response!
They need their donations from the Gates foundation
I wish him and doubtless many others to come every success.
It will be interesting to see how the (at the moment ) nobbled Judiciary get AZ/HMG off the hook on this one.
“It was a new and novel pathogen which would kill millions of people eg 50,000 plus in the UK alone .No one had any pre existing immunity. It was imperative a vaccine had to be developed as quickly as possible.” That may be a defence to a negligence claim, but this sort of claim is a new one on me.
Either way it will take decades to sort. Think Bigtobacco…
That said, I wonder where the likes of Tim Davie stand. He’s responsible for the BBC disinformation unit and has said/admitted on many occasions that his job is to prevent the spread of disinformation. But, he also owes a duty of care to his employees….
Maybe this poor lady and many others would still be alive today had the BBC done its job properly ie allowed proper debate between relevant experts as to the benefits/harms of vaccines as weighed against the danger ofcovid.
In my world, the heads of the likes of AZ, Pfizer,etc. and Davie, Blair etc. would be indicted for manslaughter, never mind being defendants in a Civil action.
By the way, if you thought AZ, more of a “traditional”, vaccine was safer than the mRNA ones, I urge you to digest and spread the word re this :-
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027869152200206X
And this :-
https://www.rintrah.nl/the-trainwreck-of-all-trainwrecks-billions-of-people-stuck-with-a-broken-immune-response/
Your last paragraph touchs on something I’m a bit fearful of – this lawsuit appears to be solely in relation to AZ. I think it quite likely that the UK and other countries will end up admitting to AZ being a flawed vaxx and hope that will shut people up, trying to pin all AEs on the viral vactor vaxxes – the J&J will be sacrificed along with AZ.
They obviously have big plans for their mrna poison so will do whatever it takes to protect it.
Indeed, that should be the big worry.
But it’s not likely to be whilst ever the MSM obeys its masters.
Bigpharma have been at it for years, as most on here know full well.
For any newcomers, please consider the Book – “Turtles All The Way Down”.
Should be compulsory reading for everyone.
Good, it’s about time some legal action was taken and reported on, I wish Mr Eve and those litigating with him good luck – and above all, that justice finally prevails.
However, it is also time to stop starting any argument with “I’m not a crackpot / conspiracy theorist / anti-vaxxer, but…” – you have no need to apologise for a just claim. It does not matter if you howl at the moon every month, if you think vaccines come straight from the devil, if you believe in every conspiracy theory on earth, no matter how dubious or meritorious the theory and facts presented. None of that detracts from the fact that these vaxxes are garbage and should never have been pushed on people on the scale and with the propaganda and coercion we experienced.
We were lied to and lied to on a monumental, shameful scale when it came to these so-called vaccines. They are not and never were vaccines as any normal person understands them, they fiddled the trials, they never, ever had any data to back up the continuing claims of “safe and effective”, they continued lying even as people dropped dead in front of the vaxx location and A&Es filled with people in the first vaxx round. They continued lying when “breakthrough infections” occurred within months of the first jabbathon, in spring 2021. They continued lying when they said a 3rd shot would do the trick, when they had done zero trials for a 3rd poke and thus could not possibly know or believe that to be true – the opposite, in fact. Indeed, when the 3rd shot was being administered in Europe and the US in autumn 2021, Israel was already seeing infections and hospitalisations in those they had stabbed for the third time in August 2021. They denied the now well-established fact of myocarditis, particularly in the young, for a disgracefully long time, even though it was first flagged in the spring of 2021.
The only conspiracy theory in relation to this poison was that on the part of the politicians, the health authorities, the medical community and the media, repeating outright lies even as true data clearly showed otherwise. Conspiracy is a known and accepted concept in criminal law, the only issue would be whether it is theory or not – there is no theory here, the facts of the conspiracy and the harm it caused are now well established. The shoe needs to be on the other foot and the conspirators must start apologising to us, those they knowingly lied to and harmed.
Everything as usual at the Daily Müll:
Seventy-five Brits have been killed by Covid vaccines, official statistics published in February show.
It equates to roughly one death for every 2million jabs dished out in the UK.
Leading experts the claim the low death toll is proof the life-saving vaccines are incredibly safe.
Müll, German for rubbish. The National Lottery markets its scam with It could be you,
despite the chance of winning the lottery are much less than 1:2,000,000. Leading experts should really have marketed the covaxxes in the same way, eg
Get vaccinated now! It’s the right and socially responsible thing to do! The vaccines are incredibly safe, they’re only killing 1 in 2 million on the spot! It could be you!
How were Covid-19 vaccine trials approved in healthy people who weren’t at risk of the virus? How did they get ethics approval? This is what must be tracked back now… See my email to Andrew Pollard, Chief Investigator on the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine trials…and also Chair of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), a huge conflict of interest: Who initiated the plan to vaccinate the entire global population against SARS- CoV-2? 40 June 2021.
The monkey trial demonstrated the vaccine did not prevent infection nor spread. Should the vaccine have proceeded to human trials? See my email: Were ‘leaky vaccines’ deliberately spread round the world? Sent to Graham Brady, Chairman of the 1922 Committee, UK Conservative Party, 10 January 2022
“it’s certainly good to see some more pieces on vaccine harms getting into the mainstream press”. It’s sad to see the MSM are still so far behind the curve, and that they even allowed themselves to get to that point. They have been a large part of the problem, so excuse me if I don’t join in with their self-congratulations should they finally achieve fundamental recognition of harms (injuries & deaths) caused by the vaccines by those in authority.