Neil Ferguson

The Question Of Evidence When Governments Push Political Narratives

Today, in the background of the risk of world conflict and threat to health and our way of life arising from Covid-19, it’s never been more important to be sceptical and understand evidence. Earlier in my career, I used to adjudicate financial disputes between two parties, weigh up the evidence, and decide the most likely scenario. So, in terms of what’s going on in the world, I’m interested in narratives which are open to challenge and the thinking and motives of those in power, the media, and experts behind them.

COVID19: The Big Pharma players behind UK Government lockdown

Vanessa Beeley To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family tradition, national patriotism, and religious dogmas.” Dr George Brock Chisholm, who served as the first Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) from 1948 to 1953 In Part One of Who controls the British …

Why Do Policymakers Insist on Breaking Their Own Coronavirus Rules?

Yesterday all hell broke lose in Lockdown Britain after it was announced that Professor Neil Ferguson from Imperial College – whose scientific advice convinced the UK government to abandon its initial “herd immunity” strategy in favour of a medieval-style ‘lockdown’ policy – resigned on Tuesday as the government’s science adviser.

Authoritarianism in the Age of Pseudoscience

Colin Todhunter Following the court decision in the US to award in favour of Dewayne Johnson (exposure to Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer and its active ingredient, glyphosate, caused Johnson to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma), attorney Robert Kennedy Jr said at the post-trial press conference: The corruption of science, the falsification of science, and we saw all …