Thanks Ginger. I'll take that as a compliment.

My guess is it is less to do with being British than the cancer attacking our institutions both nationally and globally. One problem I did not mention because it would have made the piece over-complicated was that in late 2009 with Labour still in office the decision was taken to finally hand over under the direction of Lord Mandelson (aka The Prince of Darkness) the responsibility for university education from the Department of Education to the Department for Business. Such a minor matter was of course barely reported at the time and almost nobody said anything, although I was one of the few exceptions, and even had a letter prominently printed in the Times Literary Supplement. I also had an email from an assistant to the shadow Conservative spokesman for education assuring me that they were opposed to the change (which was mildly encouraging since there had to be a General Election by May 2010).

It was also not much of a surprise when a few months later that not only did the new government not honour this undertaking but removed all state support for universities placing them entirely at the disposal of private sponsorship. So, in effect even the possibility of any kind of academic independence has virtually evaporated in the past two and half years without the institutional changes ever receiving the remotest public attention (you might think the only things that matter are reality game shows). Our academic institutions are now entirely beholden to big business and to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (to give it its full title) with Sir Andrew Witty (CEO GlaxoSmihKline) the lead non-executive board member.

But, of course, your comments were tongue-in-cheek and this is not just a British disease. There are few brakes left anywhere against the basic principle that ruthless greed is the only good and must be encouraged in all its forms.

John

Glax,

"A snake shedding its skin"? Perfect. And the serpent said, "Die? You will not die. Eat this fruit and live forever!"

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Thanks John

Imagine Dr Fiona Godlee of the BMJ relying on information from a journalist Brian Deer to prove herself. He is no medical expert and has a vendetta against Dr Wakefield. Notice how James Murdock and Crispin Davis have jumped ship.

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Thank you for keeping us up to date on this hot mess. What you do is incredible, and exposing the truth is the only way to keep our society safe from the insidious corporate greed pervading medicine today.

All I can say is kudos to John on an excellent expose'. Is there a book coming, or are the "powers that be" beholden to larger powers?

I would love to see this one on 60 Minutes, but then again Pharma sponsors the show.

God Bless you John and Bless your efforts and your wonderful research and ... Thank You Age of Autism.
Ed Yazbak

Dan

Yes, and before "Lewis" there was "Morse", one of the classic TV serials which ran from 1986-2001. And actually if you revisit the series you can see this all happening with a few extra bodies attached. Arrogant academics, corridors of power, industrial strings.

Of course, that's Oxford - Dr Moore is from Cambridge!

John

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John, you are amazing the way you uncover all this corruption and try to hold those responsible accountable. It is like waiting for the next installment of an exciting John Grisham novel. What a mammouth task you have taken on. Your readers and parents of children damaged by vaccines (and those who potentially could be)owe you and all at AOA a great debt. It takes so much time, energy and financial resources to look after children with a disability. Many carers just can't muster up the energy to take on another challenge, especially one as big as greedy multinational pharmaceuticals and corrupt government employees. Many, thanks once again.
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(I sent the three emails/letters you so eloquently drafted on AOA to the Moore, Thias and Cathart about complaints regarding Harris and Deer. I am still waiting for a response like the rest of us I am sure.)

The Media Standards Trust and the Science Media Centre are both sinister organisations, financed by corporate vested interests and 100% devoted to political and corporate agendas. Fiona Fox, CEO of the SMC has NO scientific or medical qualifications, and has far left affiliations. Much of the press and media suppression and manipulation masterminded by the SMC reflects Ms Fox's determined Marxist, anti democracy, agenda:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiona_Fox_(UK_press_officer)
From above:-
"Fiona Fox (born 1964) is a British writer. She is the director of the Science Media Centre and a former leading member of the Revolutionary Communist Party.
The credibility of the Science Media Centre has been questioned,[2] mainly on the basis of the political affiliations of Fiona Fox, and in particular Fox's links to the Living Marxism group."

AoA readers interested can read the copious verbiage in her blogspot, which well reflects her 'modus operandii', replacing truth and facts with blatant propaganda. She says she 'loves' Brian Deer. With a bit of luck the two of them will elope, to nothern Siberia-or ANYWHERE!!:-
http://fionafox.blogspot.com/

The following is an example of Fiona's malign influence over what we the public, get told in the media. This article refers to last year's catastrophic tsunami in Japan following an earthquake:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/journalism/blog/2011/03/british-media-went-into-meltdo.shtml
From above:-
"Media meltdown over nuclear threat
A week last Friday, in response to the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, the Science Media Centre dropped every other story and started issuing comments from experts on earthquakes and tsunamis, warning them to prepare for days of back-to-back interviews. We forewarned our public health experts that the media interest would soon turn to them and planned to line up our trauma experts and psychologists.
Then there were explosions at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Suddenly, this was the only game in town as far as the media was concerned.

As we obligingly stood down our tsunami experts to find nuclear scientists, we started to gather comments and access the combined expertise of many scientists and engineers who have decades of experience of nuclear accidents, detailed knowledge of how these plants work and an understanding of what radiation can do to the human body and surrounding environment. As with all good scientists and academics, there were differences of emphasis and differences of opinion, but I think a fair reading of the consensus would go something like this:
- This was a very, very serious situation
- The Japanese operators appeared to have done a tremendous job in controlling it
- It was not another Chernobyl
- Almost everything reported to have happened was what experts would have expected to happen in a 40-year-old plant faced with the combined impacts of the earthquake and tsunami
- The Japanese authorities did everything right in relation to protecting the local population, setting the exclusion zone, handing out iodine tablets etc.
- The health risks to anyone in Tokyo from a radiation leak at the plant in Fukushima are really very small indeed.

So why did the best estimates of the best experts give way to another narrative? Why did so many responsible broadcasters and editors not allow the facts to get in the way of a good story? Why did almost every section of our media lead daily reports with 'another Chernobyl' or the coming apocalypse, when none of Britain's leading scientists or the Chief Scientific Adviser were in any way confirming that assessment?"

Almost EVERY LINE of this misleading and dismissive public appeasement was factually WRONG!! The idea that what happened at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power was "what experts would have expected to happen in a 40-year-old plant faced with the combined impacts of the earthquake and tsunami" is a PERFECT example of Fox tripping up over her own invective. If the 'experts' KNEW in advance this catastrophe could happen they are culpable in respect of it ACTUALLY happening. We are all told nuclear power stations are SAFE SAFE SAFE, never mind that radioactivity persists for hundreds of thousands of years.