{"id":27897,"date":"2020-05-20T21:46:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T11:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=27897"},"modified":"2020-05-20T21:46:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T11:46:04","slug":"i-knew-this-guy-was-off-but-i-did-not-know-he-has-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=27897","title":{"rendered":"I Knew This Guy Was Off But I Did Not Know He Has Form"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So Neil Ferguson the Imperial College epidemiologist was behind the disputed research that sparked the mass culling of eleven million sheep and cattle during the 2001 outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also predicted that up to 150,000 people could die. There were fewer than 200 deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2002, Ferguson predicted that up to 50,000 people would likely die from exposure to BSE (mad cow disease) in beef. In the U.K., there were only 177 deaths from BSE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2005, Ferguson predicted that up to 150 million people could be killed from bird flu. In the end, only 282 people died worldwide from the disease between 2003 and 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2009, a government estimate, based on Ferguson\u2019s advice, said a \u201creasonable worst-case scenario\u201d was that the swine flu would lead to 65,000 British deaths. In the end, swine flu killed 457 people in the U.K.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last March, Ferguson admitted that his Imperial College model of the COVID-19 disease was based on undocumented, 13-year-old computer code that was intended to be used for a feared influenza pandemic, rather than a coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ferguson declined to release his original code so other scientists could check his results. He only released a heavily revised set of code last week, after a six-week delay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And these people make a living predicting Armageddon, then present a &#8220;solution&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PROBLEM &#8211; REACTION -SOLUTION<br>\nThe MSM are too corrupt, inept or lacking in curiosity to do a modicum of due diligence, and the average man on the street is too used to taking orders &amp; spoon fed &#8220;information&#8221; from &#8220;experts&#8221; &amp; these experts are never checked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u201creal experts\u201d that provide substantial evidence backed up with FACTS which differs from the narrative gets banned. Where is the logic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I mean dear God, CNN is now running that professional scam artist Greta as a &#8220;coronavirus expert&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks Miklos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Neil Ferguson the Imperial College epidemiologist was behind the disputed research that sparked the mass culling of eleven million sheep and cattle during the 2001 outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. He also predicted that up to 150,000 people could die. There were fewer than 200 deaths. In 2002, Ferguson predicted that up to 50,000 people &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=27897\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I Knew This Guy Was Off But I Did Not Know He Has Form&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27898,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27897\/revisions\/27898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}