ITV has been issued with a warning by Ofcom following a Covid segment with Dr. Hilary Jones on the morning show Lorraine. The Glasgow Times has more.
The broadcaster has been told to take “greater care” after Dr. Hilary shared inaccurate vaccine statistics in December.
The programme attracted 3,833 complaints from viewers over a discussion about the number of unvaccinated COVID-19 patients in hospital.
The segment, on December 6th 2021, saw host Lorraine Kelly and resident medical expert Dr. Hilary encouraged viewers to accept the offer of a coronavirus vaccination. …
ITV viewers lodged complaints after ITV’s resident medical expert, Dr. Hilary, shared inaccurate information.
He said: “Those people who haven’t been vaccinated, we’d really love you to think again and be vaccinated because 90% of people in hospital are unvaccinated right now with Covid.”
On Monday, media watchdog Ofcom ruled it would not be launching a formal investigation, but has issued ITV with guidance.
In a statement, Ofcom said: “This programme incorrectly referenced the proportion of unvaccinated COVID-19 patients in hospital.
“We have told ITV that greater care should be taken by trusted medical experts when presenting facts and figures on public health issues.
“However, given official statistics and research have consistently shown that vaccination against COVID-19 offers greater protection against serious health consequences, we do not consider that the error was sufficient to materially mislead viewers on this main point of discussion.”
I suppose we should applaud Ofcom for warning a broadcaster over pro-vaxx inaccuracies rather than anti-vaxx inaccuracies, but claiming the error wasn’t bad enough “to materially mislead viewers” is pretty extraordinary. Claiming that 90% of all people in hospital are unvaccinated is pretty misleading. Moreover, the article also includes the following paragraph:
A clarification was broadcast on the show two days later, explaining the statistic related to patients in intensive care units rather than the proportion of unvaccinated COVID-19 patients in hospital.
In fact, it’s also not true that 90% of Covid patients in ICUs are unvaccinated, as we’ve pointed out many times before on this website. So even the “clarification” was misleading.
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Ofcom should be renamed the British State Censor
Jones has been brow beating people and terrifying all the elderly for far too long.
Lies, lies and damn lies. Thats him and his ilk all over.
He didn’t wear a mask at Wimbledon proving he isn’t worried about the plague. Rules don’t apply to him.
Doesn’t ”Unvaccinated” also denote people who’ve had two jabs or are within two weeks after the third? So perhaps, having only just had the ”booster”, are catapulted straight into hospital.
Medical clinics and hospitals in USA are denying life-saving Ivermectin medicine even with court orders. Big Pharma doing all that they can to push the vaxx and inoculate us while effective and cheap COVID cures exist. There turns out to be censorship that we have never seen before for those who are looking for these treatments. We say over and over again that indepenedent researchers found Ivermectin safe and very effective for these Flu-Corona symptoms. Getting Ivermectin is easy https://ivmpharmacy.com
Dr Hilary is a media personality with an agent. Does he still practice medicine? I am glad he has been taken to task by OfCom, useless though that body is. They now need to look at the rubbish he has been spouting on Covid for the past two years. It may take a while, as there is an awful lot of material to wade through.
Im afraid the first thing i thought to myself was “Whats in it for him”.I hope this is the start of the end for this pointless self serving EX doctor
Can i say cunt?
You just did.😀
Yes.
What a repulsive specimen he is!
This week, Paul Joseph Watson put up video clips of Jones from at the start of the ‘pandemic’ telling people just how useless (and potentially dangerous) face masks are! Three months later he performed a complete about-face with no reason given.
📝 ‘Dr’ Hilary Jones.
Has anyone done an audit or investigation into his financial interests?
We can guess, surely?
I saw this Dr Hilary Jones take on the NHS consultant who confronted the Health Secretary on a hospital visit. Jones spouts drivel about covid and I’m pretty sure he’s not reading the actual literature; seemed completely baffled by the concept of natural immunity and it’s robustness vs vaccines and suggested vaccines more effective at preventing the transmission of the virus. Would really like to see him go head to head with Carl Heneghan or Sunetra Gupta. He’s a compete muppet.
Are you reading the literature?
He Knows nothing whatsoever about immunology/vaccinology/epidemiology.
He is just a Doctor – and as such knows nothing about these crucial sciences and yet the MSM give him airtime.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-60082436
Stay safe! 🙄
My friend’s mum who is 80 said that if she ever heard someone say that phrase again she is going to stick a knife between their eyes
Definitely with you.
“Stay safe.”
I just want to scream. FO.
This is evil: It’s just another visual way of signalling that – by virtue of their mere existence – other people are nothing but dreadful health risks and people can only protect themselves from this by performing all kinds of bizarre, anti-social rituals. That’s both harmful to the wearer (who’d otherwise have to conclude that the health risk wasn’t so dreadful after all) and to society at-a-large which has to be split into isolated human atoms to protect them all from each other.
greater care should be taken by trusted medical experts
Shouldn’t greater care also be taken by Dr Hilary?
Greater care should be taken of Shillary Jones. He should be Taken into Care.
“official statistics and research have consistently shown that vaccination against COVID-19 offers greater protection against serious health consequences”: perhaps so. But on the other hand intelligent research has shown that the claim is dubious. Who to believe: the official narrators or the sceptical intellects on the internet? My money’s on the latter.
“However, given official statistics and research have consistently shown that vaccination against COVID-19 offers greater protection against serious health consequences, we do not consider that the error was sufficient to materially mislead viewers on this main point of discussion.”
My emphasis.
Wot?!?!?
Groan. Saw the headline – thought: that looks good. Only to have the obligatory sting-in-the-tail at the conclusion.
Yes. Something and nothing.
Doctator Hilary Jones is a consistent purveyor of utter shite masquerading as science.
A lot of people swallow it though.
As is Dr Sarah Jarvis of radio 2 fame
We need some Russia hackers to follow the money. Who was paying this tosser?
He has some links with the infamous Gates Foundation, I think…
He and people like him are exactly the reason why so many people have lost faith in the medical profession and by extension the NHS. The average person when seeing a doctor (which is by no means as easy as it sounds these days) expects to treated by a healthcare professional, not a purveyor of government policy. And since we have socialised medicine, the government get to have their cake and eat it. Non negotiable tax contributions to pay for non negotiable treatment, administered by government employees, at a time of their choosing, also non negotiable.
They don’t call him Dr Shillary for nothing you know
I wonder how often complaints are made against the ghastly Jon Gaunt about his hate speech, incitement to violence against the pro-freedom movement, and general smearing he does every single time he’s given a platform.
I’m surprised GB News keeps inviting this scumbag back on to their shows because every time he’s on there’s almost a fight due to his viscious verbal assaults.
Last night he was on the Neil Oliver show and the hostility he showed towards the pro-choice NHS rally was jaw-dropping.
I can’t believe my Ex wife used to date him when she lived in Barnsley to think we shared the same cavity the Horror.I assume the Big C has rotted his cerebral cortex.
Thank God she’s your ex wife.
Good grief. I couldn’t share the same room with the c*nt.
He should have been sacked for such misleading information. Is he prepared to accept responsibility for any adverse affects? My guess is he isn’t!
He no doubt has “powerful friends”.
Sometimes when I want a good laugh I read the comments in the Guardian. Today there was a comment with 111 up ticks. It said that when Covid is over and the historians analyse what went on they will say that NZ and Oz got it right!
I still rely on personal experience and observation and I’m still waiting for my first Covid death and being a member of 2 organisations which have elderly members (bowls and Rotary) I still haven’t heard of anybody dying of Covid. I must assume that this plague isn’t that deadly.
Their historians will claim that, yes. Having revised all records on the internet like that bloke from 1984.
Oh dear, who’s going to regulate the regulator on giving out false information and propaganda?
The media with all their hysterical reporting are to blame for much of the pressure on governments “to do something”.
I had to correct Dr John Campbell when he also repeated the 90% “unvaccinated” in ICU lie.
To be fair to him he is slowly becoming sceptical with his recent video on 20th Jan 2022 showing that only 6,483 people died of Covid in 2021 with no other comorbidities and the average age at death was 81.5.
Over 1.3 million have viewed his video so hopefully there will be a groundswell towards Covid scepticism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UHvwWWcjYw
One of my pet (completely speculative and far-fetched) predictions is that the establishment will ‘flip the script’ on mRNA vaccines and allow it to become known that they were a terrible mistake made by overreaching and unscrupulous governments. Imagine the lawsuits! If you wanted a way to bankrupt countries in order to make way for global governance, it would be a great way to do it. UN comes in to keep the peace, World Bank props up the economy with CBDCs and China releases drugs to counteract the effects of the bad western vaxxes! What a picture! 🎥 🔥
There won’t be any lawsuits.
Allowing children to be “vaccinated” stops all lawsuits.
That is why governments go against (JCVI) advice and have jabbed children when the harm from the jabs is greater than from Covid.
“They are never going to market a vaccine, allow people access to a vaccine, an approved vaccine without getting liability protection. Now the emergency use authorization vaccines have liability protection under the PREP Act and under the CARES Act.
So as long as you take an emergency use vaccine, you can’t sue them. Once they get approved, now you can sue them, unless they can get it recommended for children. Because all vaccines that are recommended, officially recommended for children get liability protection, even if an adult gets that vaccine.
That’s why they are going after the kids. They know this is going to kill and injure a huge number of children, but they need to do it for the liability protection.”
https://wsau.com/2021/12/31/robert-f-kennedy-jr-explains-why-fauci-is-going-after-children/
Dr. Mad Hattery Bones, is a paid shill for GloboCap’s fear porn narrative, with that other ghastly GMB troll that is Lorraine Jelly… the bare faced lie of ICUs being 90% full of the selfishly unvaxxed is in fact criminally inaccurate – deliberately so to fuel the demonization of the jab refusenicks.
Meanwhile this current lull in “proceedings” is simply that the EUs next phase of bio-ID matrix grid populace crush downs… will roll later in come the summer, tis likely the UK NHS app will integrate into this system too.
https://twitter.com/SikhForTruth/status/1484849526133374976?s=20
Game on.
Cuddly propaganda for the modern age.
Democratic totalitarianism is the finest form of enslavement currently on offer.
Correcting a TV medical buffoon is a clever way of insinuating that the gov is right after all – and that any ‘real errors’ will be impartially dealt with.
That’s why we can’t trust the current ‘liberalisation’ mind-bending phase.
So how many indoctrinated cretins has Jones pushed through the door marked “get your untested cytotoxin here”? He should be tarred, feathered and fucking stoned too death.
Second half of this video – claim made that the jabbed are pissing carcinogens. He is a health professional.
Blood Clots & Inflammation: Dr. Thompson Details J&J Vax Reaction & Bloodwork Findings
https://www.bitchute.com/video/O7Sbcfr7rkdq/
“trusted medical expert”? If this wretch is one, then I hate to think what an untrustworthy TV quack might be like.
Could we all say a prayer for him and pray he should have an anal prolapse and allow a pack of wild dogs to feast on that sour treat.
He is an anal prolapse.
Horowitz: The very concerning data from Scotland.
https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-the-very-concerning-data-from-scotland
Very important findings…but then we know don’t we?
I absolutely despise this smug cunt