The BBC is fuelling vaccine “disinformation” by airing the “conspiracy theories” of people motivated by money and vanity, the Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty has said. The Telegraph has more.
Prof Sir Chris Whitty said “rock solid” science backing vaccinations was being undermined by people motivated by money and vanity.
Speaking at the Nuffield Trust Summit near Windsor on Thursday morning, he said the most common reason for peddling disinformation was economic gain, with some of those doing receiving airtime on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
“That is an area which I think we should be honest about,” he said. “Some of our colleagues push some of these ideas for reasons, as far as I can see, almost exclusively of vanity.
“Previously, they were a middle-ranking, perfectly decent clinician or academic. Once they start pushing these, they’re invited on to the Today programme, they have a huge following on Twitter – every time they tweet something out, they get 100,000 likes. It’s very, very addictive.
“And I’m afraid some of the people you hear are simply vain. And again, I think we should be honest enough to call that out.”
Sir Chris said social media “amplifies” disinformation, with chatbots making minority views look popular, adding that people with genuine health expertise needed to be careful about how they engaged with such debates.
“Now, a word of warning – this is a health warning to my science colleagues. What do you do when you see conspiracy theories running riot on the radio, on social media, in the press?”
“The warning is that the aim of some of the things that are said on social media by professional disinformation experts is to get you so angry that you respond. They want you to respond.
“The first reason they want you to respond is you will then repeat their lies to a public, who otherwise would not hear them. So you’ll say: ‘It’s outrageous that someone is saying that vaccines turn your teeth green. There is no evidence that the vaccines turn your teeth green.’
“You’ve immediately told a whole bunch of people who have never heard that big lie, but that’s something they should worry about. So the repetition is the first thing they want you to do.”
Worth reading in full.
Because Chris Whitty (salary £200k) never got anything wrong during Covid…
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Almost at tipping point now; keep up the pressure.
Is that “rock solid” and “safe and effective” science Sir Twitty?
Rock solid data shows that all the disease vaccination is supposed to have defeated, had decreased significantly before vaccination for them was introduced, and the incidence was so low the data shows no further decrease after vaccines were introduced.
What motivated him then, to about turn on his initial stance about the low impact of an alleged virus and then go full throttle to instil fear amongst many individuals?
Nothing to do with becoming a ‘sewer’ I suppose…
Loss of credibility, morals and conscience – sold and paid in full. Despicable.
If he were to follow his own advice he wouldn’t be commenting on people peddling conspiracy theories on the BBC. In fact it would be better for him never to comment publicly on anything ever again.
So we need to think, why is he? And why now?
Clearly he’s positioning himself for some new release of information – getting his ducks in a row to try and minimise damage?…
“Next slide, please!”
How would you make money by saying vaccines are unsafe?
the people who make money are the ones flogging the wretched things.
he’s got a cheek saying that the challenges are coming from mediocre scientists.
that is just being provocative.
if he really wants to see a mediocre and corrupt scientist, he only has to look in the mirror!
Professor Whitty is single and is believed to live alone in his flat with, possibly, a goldfish. His career has been mainly academic and he has co -authored a paper with Professor Pants Down Ferguson and Professor Farrar, who organised the misleading letter to persuade the public that the covid virus was not created in a Chinese lab with US military help. The latter was rewarded with a top job with the WHO. The top jobs go to the most competent in the UK.
Disinformation he certainly knows all about that having lived off it during the scamdemic. Remember all that statistical sleight of hand to scare everyone to death and being found out to have told lies a couple of days later? Why is it people like this always accuse others of the the very thing they themselves are perpetuating?
What a nasty little man. He should be ashamed and prosecuted for crimes against humanity.
Given the extraordinary number of people we know or have heard about who have suffered heart damage, died of heart attacks, strokes, who are with or are fighting an almighty plethora of cancers after having the Covid jabs – and the growing number of studies backing this up – Chris Witty and his ‘science’ committee need to hang.
” …people motivated by money and vanity” He needs to look in the mirror.
Can we put some of these ‘advisors’ on the psychiatrists couch, please?
Has anyone asked him what a Woman is I wonder
Someone should tell this Big Pharma Propagandist that dissent from a Scientific/ Government CONsensus, backed up by detailed research and studying the medical evidence, is not “a conspiracy.”
Oh, and perhaps point out to him that the mRNA junk is not a vaccine ….. any more than a donkey magically becomes a horse if it is called one.
Either forced to say that or beginning to feel the heat. The evidence that vaccines have caused considerable harm is overwhelming. Very likely Kennedy will expose the extent of vaccine harms in the not too distant future.
I don’t understand who gained financially or was vain by questioning the vaccine narrative?
A misinformed statement if you ask me.
As someone who has regularly examined the “rock solid” science and found it wanting I am dismayed by Whitty’s dismissive, even abusive comments. Far from receiving any financial gain the launching of my COVID diary led to the cancellation of my contract with Kindle Direct Publishing and the withdrawal of all my books on the platform, so I have sustained a financial loss. And perhaps he should remember that when I wrote to him with a management protocol in May 2020 he not only ignored it but he didn’t have the courtesy to reply. Perhaps I will write to him again.
Indeed. I think you should write to him again.
Putting aside the subjective, let’s look at the facts as we know them about the COVID ‘vaccine’: -Is it a vaccine in the traditional sense? No. -Was the public informed that the vaccine used technology not previously approved for human use? No. -Did children need to be vaccinated? No. -Did healthy people without comorbidities need to be vaccinated? No. -Was the vaccine 100% save and effective? No. -Was the vaccine, relative to other vaccines, safe and effective? No. -Was the low IFR, which was similar to flu, made known to the public? No -Was the high number of deaths associated with the vaccine on the yellow card and VAR reporting systems made known to the public? No. -Was Ivermectin a dangerous horse dewormer? No. -Were the public informed that Ofcom[munist] sent a letter in April/May of 2020 threatening action against any news outlet that didn’t repeat the government narrative? No. -Was there evidence of safety in medium or long term trial data? No (as only very short term data was available). -Was it known how long the spike protein would be generated by cells in the body? No. -Were there studies that strongly supported Ivermectin as an effective early treatment… Read more »
Well said. Should people with prior infection be advised to get the vaccine (as Whitty recommended)? Obviously not, natural immunity is the strongest protection.
First class.
Spot on in every way – although I think “absolute filth” is being too kind.
Were the “vaccines” approved? No, they only ever had Emergency use Authorisation.
Does Witty belong in jail? Yes, along with Vallance, Van Tam, Hancock, Boris and many others, for crimes against humanity, malfeasance in public office, assault and battery and reckless endangerment.
A good list with one very important point missing. Was the vaccine produced and injected into human guinea pigs the same as that made for the trials? No. Dr Malone holds the patent for the use of uridine so the production jabs use pseudo-uridine.
Chris whitty: “trying to save my own skin!”
The irony of Prof Sir Chris Whitty saying “rock solid science backing vaccinations was being undermined” hurts my brain. This statement is itself ‘disinformation’, something this useful idiot fails to understand.
If it’s rock solid science, he won’t mind disclosing all the pharma test results?
or why viruses don’t exist except in the profits and stock prices of pharma
“Disinformation” and “conspiracy theory” are Orwellian codes for inconvenient truths.
Scumbag Whitty. Got knighted for his service to the globalist-pharma-mRNA evil cabal.
“Conspiracy theory – the most successful propaganda cliche of the 21st century”
Just utter it and people stop thinking, don’t continue to ask questions, shrink back intimidated.
Here’s a (long) summary of what’s going on, of which this scumbag is a key cog in the overall enslavement machine. (I just record the audio, divide it into 3 parts, & listen while doing something else)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFHHOBiUrkg
and the original tour de force a few years back, on Agenda 2030:
https://rumble.com/v2sy0pk-documentary-unsustainable-the-uns-agenda-for-world-domination.html
A very bad man, who placed career, and status and money before people’s lives. May he reap what he has sewn
Talking about lies. How about releasing the vaccine data from the trials and after? Has that ever been released?
Yeah are you feeling uncomfortable mate? If so, it’s thoroughly deserved.
Has he got trouble in the top paddock?
A euphemism for hair loss? If so, I’m similarly afflicted.
‘Covid’?
99.95% survival rate for ages under 70.
Average age of mortality equal to average life expectancy.
Whitty…or witless?
Only ever identified using the Christian Drosten PCR test recipe, created and then peer reviewed in 23 hours.
False positive rate? Much higher than anyone official has ever admitted.
Whitty was pushing Malthusian disinformation during Covid that was debunked by Darwin in his seminal work. That means that he failed basic Maths and basic literature review and yet he somehow achieved status in the scientific community.
Sadly the scientific community is not what it was.
Darwin was not a scientist and Evolution is a laughingstock. As stupid as the virology and quackcination peddled by the ineffable idiot witless Whitty.
Certainly needs questioning.
See “Unbekoming” substack
“the most common reason for peddling disinformation was economic gain”.
He’s clearly talking about the Big boys in Pharmer and the likes of Billy Grates.
and himself.
Well, I didn’t hear the BBC airing anything other than Whitty and Co generated disinformation during the scam years. And as for rock solid science backing vaccines. Could we club together and buy him “Vaccines, Amen!” by Aaron Siri? On second thoughts, there’s none so blind etc.
Nothing like words of wisdom from Sir Chris Dimwitty.