The Covid Inquiry has failed to ask the most basic question: why were people dying, says Dr Andrew Bamji – a clinician who correctly adduced the answer in April 2020 and brought it to SAGE's attention, but was ignored.
Brave doctors like Aseem Malhotra who stood up for the truth About the Covid vaccines and were smeared by colleagues, sacked and cancelled for their trouble deserve an apology, says Dr Andrew Bamji.
Dr Andrew Bamji began blogging about Covid in February 2020. Looking back he finds he was mostly right, unlike the 'experts' on SAGE who refused to listen to him. His Covid writings are now collected in a new book.
The Covid Inquiry is being led by the wrong experts (lawyers) who are asking the wrong questions of the wrong people. It's not only ignoring scientific evidence but actively suppressing it, says Dr Andrew Bamji.
Dr Andrew Bamji, a retired Consultant Rheumatologist and former President of the British Society for Rheumatology, reviews Norman Fenton and Martin Neil's Fighting Goliath, saying what he thinks they get right and wrong.
The world bankrupted itself in a vain effort to "stop the spread" of Covid but only one thing was ever needed, says retired consultant Dr. Andrew Bamji: the very few who got seriously ill needed this treatment.
From Covid to climate change, scientific discussion has been stifled by the 'settled science' trope, says Dr Andrew Bamji. As a long-term analyst of medical papers, he knows science is never settled.
Too many experts are too quick to override doubts and forge ahead with radical solutions based on over-confident models, says Dr Andrew Bamji. On Covid and climate, a strong dose of humility is in order.
Over 70 years have passed since the NHS was established; if the best minds in organisational thinking have been unable to come up with solutions in that time, perhaps there are none, writes Dr Andrew Bamji.
The pharmaceutical industry is much too keen on new drugs and prone to conceal risk and exaggerate benefit. But radical proposals to overhaul it will fail. What can practically be done to improve it?
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