This morning.
Good Morning Britain on ITV.
Richard Madeley goes ‘there'( @4.55) with clinical psychologist Susan Michie, director of The Centre for Behaviour Change and, perhaps uniquely, a member of both the UK government’s SAGE advisory panel on Covid and the Communist Party of Great Britain, seeking the overthrow of the UK government.
And you thought you were busy.
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Love Richard, only because I miss the old Alan Partridge on TV, close your eyes and it’s him
Oh definitely, did you see the other week when he went off on a rant about the Hitler youth? His co host couldn’t contain herself
Didn’t see it, but it’s definitely his brief to get stuck into anything controversial about guests and stir the pot for the ratings, which I agree with, if it’s got any relevance to the topic of course.
Well I say rant, it was more of a waffle. Found the link: https://www.joe.ie/movies-tv/richard-madeley-goes-full-partridge-hitler-youth-reference-good-morning-britain-724322?fbclid=IwAR0QZIymp4WBf4esPbUmWMuyNWZ4-JgvMytp4xr7aZxEmtSSz4hnms8HK3g
The Masque of the Red Guest…
At least he didn’t suggest contamination of our precious bodily fluids by vaccine.
Why didn’t she just say, No, my polictics don’t influence my scientific views?
They do. A bit of a scratchin around NPHET will also find a few peculiars I expect.
Ah, nice to see people rallying in support of a Communist Psychologist, spoofing away about Virology, which professionally, she is entirely ignorant of, hasn’t a clue, knows not a whit, nothing, not a sausage, bugger-all.
Now, that’s what I call setting your stall out!
Hmmm. I am not a fan of her or of the interview style. BUT she was on talking about behaviour and behavioural change and as this was driven by changing evidence, restriction and mask mandates it was only fair her views covered this. She is entitled to talk about these things as a cause of behavioural change and did not purport to be a virologist at any point. For example I can talk about Marketing Theory which is what I teach but I can also talk about how Covid has been a key driver of product adoption, behaviour change, digital enablement wt. THat does not mean I’m a virologist I’m just using the pandemic to set context. I thought she was very good and really was quite polite in countering why her political views were not relevant.
What a garbled response ( 5.55 mark) when asked about why she changed her original stance on masks (this would have been back around June/July 2020).
She says “in the beginning, there was much more emphasis on droplets causing the spread as opposed to aerosols” (yes, this was part of the justification used to mandate masks – ie that masks would be effective at stopping the droplets, rather than the much smaller aerosols).
A bit later she says, “the evidence has since accumulated that the key transmission route is aerosols” (this evidence hadn’t been published back last year when she first changed her stance – but more to the point, she just provided the viewer with all the more reason why the use of cloth masks are ineffective at preventing community spread).
At that point, (maybe realising the hole she’s after digging for herself?), she becomes very vague: “the evidence has since accumulated on the effectiveness of mask use, and looking at the evidence, I became more and more convinced the evidence for mask usage far-outweighed anything else” (maybe it would help your case to specify what “the evidence” actually is because you haven’t done so yet!)
They were demanding the opening of dance clubs last Saturday week in London f_lawless- while we were nodding dogs to vaccine passports- so we can have a pint and a pizza.
Now I will tin whistle and jig as good as the next (wo)man/daffodil, but there is a bottom up FU side to English culture which at this point is absolutely nailing it.