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Khan’s Deputy Urged Scientists to Alter Study Showing Emissions Scheme Had No Impact on Child Health

by Richard Eldred
23 August 2023 1:00 PM

London’s Deputy Mayor, Shirley Rodrigues, is accused of trying to alter a Lancet study’s conclusion that found no health benefits for children from the city’s low emissions zone. The Telegraph has the story.

Emails seen by the Telegraph show that Shirley Rodrigues, London’s Deputy Mayor, asked if Professor Chris Griffiths, of Queen Mary University of London, could “reword” the study’s conclusion that found “no evidence” of health benefits to children’s lungs.

Ms. Rodrigues complained: “It reads like Lez (low emissions zones) or similar have no impact at all.”

In the private exchange from November 2018, Prof Griffiths refused the request, replying to Ms. Rodrigues: “Apologies – it’s difficult to alter the sentence you refer to as it’s what we set out to look for but didn’t find.”

The study was published unaltered the following day in the respected journal the Lancet Public Health, concluding: “Despite these improvements in air quality, there was no evidence of improvements in the proportion of children with small lungs or asthma symptoms over this period.”

The correspondence comes to light just days after the Telegraph revealed how Mr. Khan’s deputy tried to discredit and ‘silence’ Imperial College scientists, who found that the ultra-low emissions zone (Ulez) had little impact on pollution.

Mr. Khan is pushing ahead with expansion of Ulez, which will charge motorists in all 32 boroughs £12.50 per day to drive polluting vehicles from August 29th.

Councillor Paul Osborn, leader of Harrow Council which is fighting the Ulez expansion, called for Ms. Rodrigues to step down and said it was time for the Government to step in or give local authorities the power to block the scheme.

“These further emails show an industrial scale conspiracy with leading scientists to manipulate the debate on the Ulez expansion by inappropriate requests to reword independent scientific reports,” said Cllr Osborn.

“These Orwellian efforts to rewrite the facts mean that Shirley Rodrigues can no longer credibly remain Deputy Mayor of London, it’s time for her to go.”

London Conservatives described the latest emails as “revealing”, saying they showed ongoing interference into scientific research by the Mayor’s office in relation to emissions.

Peter Fortune, the Conservative London Assembly member for Bexley and Bromley, two of the boroughs which are also challenging the Ulez expansion, said: “It is unacceptable that Sadiq Khan’s deputy would tell scientists to downplay findings that are inconvenient for the Mayor.

“Scientific debate needs to be open and transparent, but as these further revelations show, the Mayor’s office has repeatedly sought to interfere and silence dissenting views.

“Both Sadiq Khan and Shirley Rodrigues have a lot of explaining to do.”

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Bad ScienceDeputy MayorSadiq KhanULEZUlez Expansion Scheme

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
1 year ago

Reality, Dear Shirley, is what remains after you’ve stopped believing in it.

These people are ignorant, arrogant, dictatorial swines.

To be a scientist is to be naïve. We are so focussed on our search for truth we fail to consider how few actually want us to find it. But it is always there, whether we see it or not, whether we choose to or not. The truth doesn’t care about our needs or wants. It doesn’t care about our governments, our ideologies, our religions. It will lie in wait for all time. And this, at last, is the gift of Chernobyl; where I once would fear the cost of truth, now I only ask, “what is the cost of lies?”

Last edited 1 year ago by Marcus Aurelius knew
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DickieA
DickieA
1 year ago

Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban.

Until the site policy changes, I still feel unable to say anything about Khan.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
1 year ago
Reply to  DickieA

How to say something without saying it. Excellent 👌

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TheBasicMind
TheBasicMind
1 year ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

W⚓️ ?

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  TheBasicMind

Yes, that’s a good one.

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LaptopMaestro
LaptopMaestro
1 year ago

She soesn’t look British either.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  LaptopMaestro

https://www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/what-mayor-does/mayor-and-his-team/shirley-rodrigues

Up to her neck in the climate scam.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

https://www.c40.org/our-team/shirley-rodrigues/

Another traitor.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Oh look, she’s a WEFfer too. One of Klaus’s little helpers.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/london-gets-second-indian-origin-deputy-mayor/story-MDyeozEaCrejcITNTGxs0J.html

And she’s not British.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/_ee0VX_tfT92JJKu6sdqIAvACm8/appointments

Born August 1961 apparently but the day of birth not given and born in Nairobi but Indian origin.

As well as being Deputy Mayor on £130k plus she also holds three Company directorships.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  LaptopMaestro

See below LM.👍

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
1 year ago
Reply to  LaptopMaestro

Don’t give observers of this site ammunition, LM; I couldn’t give a rat’s arse which mafia claims her.

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LaptopMaestro
LaptopMaestro
1 year ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

Until people realise that the rot started with the windrush, we don’t have a hope.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
1 year ago
Reply to  LaptopMaestro

And which mafia is to blame for windrush?

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LaptopMaestro
LaptopMaestro
1 year ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

Labour ….. blame the voters of 1945.

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Jon Garvey
Jon Garvey
1 year ago
Reply to  LaptopMaestro

What? She’s an archetypal Londoner, as any leade of the GLC will tell you.

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Roy Everett
Roy Everett
1 year ago

“Climate policy has almost nothing to do anymore with environmental protection”, says the German economist and IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer. The next world climate summit in Cancun is actually an economy summit during which the distribution of the world’s resources will be negotiated.
Let’s admit it: ULEZ policy has almost nothing to do with environmental protection or health protection. The next :London budget will actually be an economy summit during which the distribution of Londoners’ wealth will be imposed.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
1 year ago

@LeeHirstComic on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/LeeHurstComic/status/1690662796160122880

”

According to Sadiq Khan, your old diesel cars are causing such bad pollution in London that each year you are literally killing thousands of people.

You absolute bastards.

However…

If you give him £12.50 each time you drive in, the dying people can go fuck themselves.

“

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RW
RW
1 year ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

I wrote that in comments here a couple of times already: If Khan is so worried about the health of the population of London, why is a license to poison them available for less than 13 quid?

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
1 year ago
Reply to  RW

Once you understand that “illegal” really means “legal for a price”, a lot of things start to make a lot more sense.

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RW
RW
1 year ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

My personal theory, as with all indirect so-called sin taxes, is that Khan wants the money and that the health-babbling is just a (thin) justification for fining relatively poor people (with older cars) for doing something which is free for relatively rich people (with current cars).

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The Real Engineer
The Real Engineer
1 year ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

You do need to remember that the Tube is very polluted and well over the legal limit. But that problem is pout on one side to get the fare money from millions of Londoners, and b***er their health. He should be prosecuted, and TfL!

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A Y M
A Y M
1 year ago

““These further emails show an industrial scale conspiracy with leading scientists to manipulate the debate on the Ulez expansion by inappropriate requests to reword independent scientific reports,” 

Boy wait till the penny drops on carbon emissions and their relationship to climate change….

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MikeAustin
MikeAustin
1 year ago

“The correspondence comes to light just days after the Telegraph revealed how Mr. Khan’s deputy tried to discredit and ‘silence’ Imperial College scientists, who found that the ultra-low emissions zone (Ulez) had little impact on pollution.”

Now now, Ms Rodrigues. Their contract was to make ridiculous predictions about covid deaths, not fabrications about ulez. Another contract will be necessary – if you can find the funds from council tax payments that are diminishing as the populace wake up.

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RW
RW
1 year ago

Khan must still resign because he’s still politically responsible for members of his staff publically claiming that white people cannot be real Londoners.

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TheBasicMind
TheBasicMind
1 year ago
Reply to  RW

I think real Londoners need to kick the others out.

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TheBasicMind
TheBasicMind
1 year ago

It’s very simple. If you are prepared to change the health research data to push a measure through regardless of the impact, you are prepared to kill people to meet your own political ends. Children, the elderly, across the board. It isn’t just some minor political wrangle, it’s a knowing criminal conspiracy to further political ends.

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The Real Engineer
The Real Engineer
1 year ago
Reply to  TheBasicMind

Strange, that sounds exactly like the vax scam. The World has become a disgusting place.

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bigpants
bigpants
1 year ago

Well it was the wrong kind of science.
Expect much more of this under a Labour Government.

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Scunnered
Scunnered
1 year ago

Stealth tax.

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beaniebean
beaniebean
1 year ago

It’s worth reading up about C40 cities and Sadiq Kahn’s involvement.

https://www.c40.org/about-c40/

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  beaniebean

C40

Who We Are

Mayors of C40 cities are committed to using an inclusive, science-based and collaborative approach to cut their fair share of emissions in half by 2030, help the world limit global heating to 1.5°C, and build healthy, equitable and resilient communities. C40 supports mayors to do this by:

Raising climate ambition through 1.5°C climate action plan support, high-impact accelerators and fostering innovation. 

Building equitable and thriving communities via global and regional programmes.Building a global movement through robust international advocacy and diplomacy.

Scaling up climate action and sharing best practices across high-impact sectors.

Facilitating access to finance for investment in green jobs and projects that improve resilience in cities

None of this shyte makes any sense and I mean that literally. This is truly just a random collection of words.

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JohnnyDollar
JohnnyDollar
1 year ago

A dangerous man would only employ other dangerous men or women

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago

“Ah yes science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture from such a trifling investment of fact” ——-Mark Twain

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