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26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
The BBC was allowed to "misrepresent" the risk posed by Covid to most people to boost public support for lockdown, top Government adviser Professor Mark Woolhouse has told the Covid Inquiry.
Professor Mark Woolhouse of the University of Edinburgh, a member of the SAGE Covid modelling group, has told the Covid Inquiry his team was never asked to model the harms of lockdown or how to avoid it.
The UK lockdowns cost more lives than they saved and must not happen again, scientists told MPs and Peers from across the political spectrum at the latest meeting of the Pandemic Recovery All-Party Parliamentary Group.
In part three of its ongoing investigation in the UK Govt's management of the coronavirus crisis, the Mail on Sunday looks at whether lockdowns saved lives. Conclusion: the cure was worse than the disease.
We're publishing a review on the Daily Sceptic of Mark Woolhouse's book The Year the World Went Mad by Guy de la Bédoyère. He thinks it's worth reading, although he said many of the things Woolhouse says two years ago.
Senior epidemiologist and Government coronavirus adviser Professor Mark Woolhouse claims he was told to "correct" his views after he criticised what he thought was an "implausible" graph shown at an official briefing.
Professor Mark Woolhouse, a member of the SAGE modelling team, has written a mea culpa in which he says the Government made a series of catastrophic mistakes in 2020 and the lockdown sceptics were basically right.
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