In a bizarre comparison, she said Britons never used to wear seat belts in cars or 'pick up dog poo in the park' but learned to over time. As for her crying out that masks should be forever, I would simply say that this illustrates that she is incapable of actually looking at the real evidence, that is that upteem randomized controlled trials conducted since the 1920s to the present day have failed to show any benefit whatsoever of community masking in the context of respiratory virus infections. Some private schools may be trading as charities when they are in reality private businesses and perhaps that should be addressed. 01 May 2021 at 08:37 PM. ". "British intellectuals worried that radio would create a uniform middlebrow British mentality. But point of nudge units was to encourage compliance by great majority and that was achieved. 29 April 2021 at 11:41 PM, Sally writes: "The biased liberal media obviously are genetically constructed to never give any credit to a Conservative party so they need to find negativity where they can find it.". A Gannett Company. One Twitter user remarked: So much for the BBCs impartiality. The super-rich Communist Susan Michie is so militant that her fellow Marxists once searched her baby's pram for subversive literature. [9] Her later career interests have been in designing and evaluating methods of behavioural change, especially in relation to wellbeing and health improvement. The UK deaths per million of population is currently 1870 people. But is it fair to make a scientists private politics part of the story? "The illogical reality of UK finance means that these decisions made for England by a failing Prime Minister affect the money the devolved nations have to provide testing., A BBC spokesperson said: "We stand by our journalism. Why do we stir up trouble in foreign countries when we can't even run our own? Thats effectively what she is saying. mdi-fullscreen. Communists dont want a liberal, tolerant society, as they imprison those who disagree with them. I believe there are moral issues. The communists really were out to destroy the West, a bit like the woke ideologues these days. Comments are moderated, and will not appear on this weblog until the moderator has approved them. Paranoia it was not! Its SAGE behavioural scientists at work. I have pointed out before that in the UK private medicine is not chosen by disappointed and frustrated patients because it is better but because it is quicker. These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience the local community. Its the same rubbish journalism that spawned corrie or strictly. Michie S, West R & Amlt R. Behavioural strategies for reducing COVID-19 transmission in the general population. It is in this context in which one can understand, I think, the presence of Professor Michie amongst the government's top SAGE advisers but what do I know. PETER HITCHENS: Why do we stir up trouble in foreign countries but can't even run our own? Steve Balmforth (30 April 2021 at 03:23 PM) makes a good point about statistics taken out of context not telling the real story. They lifted the tiny infant out of the way, to check that. Professor Susan Michie, a behavioural psychologist who sits on the all-important Sage committee, made headlines last week by appearing to suggest that social distancing and wearing facemasks should remain in place "forever". That's 4,000,000 million deaths a year, maybe, in Brazil in a NORMAL year, which equates to over 10,000 per day. Lets treat her accordingly. [6], Born in St Pancras, London, Michie is the daughter of the biologist Dame Anne McLaren and computer scientist Donald Michie, and sister of the economist Jonathan Michie. The existence of the NHS does not only damage the quality of its own output, but also that of alternative systems. There is no nuance or debate required here. I stand by it.". All guests are offered the opportunity to have their say.. I am curious to what metrics you have applied to call the vaccine program an outstanding success? Remember how she shared around SAGE a smear letter denigrating Profs. WHO appoints Communist Party member who said face masks should continue forever as chair of advisory board,, But is it fair to make a scientists private politics part of the story? Martin | Science, by the way, is completely subservient to ideology in dialectical materialism. Iran's Revolutionary Guard Fanatics feed on the (often ignorant and unself-aware) hostility of the West. 30 April 2021 at 03:23 PM, Sally "they think of themselves as being superior to everybody else". As explained at length in two 2020 'how the Left left me' interviews on YouTube; one with Melanie Philips "Why I left the left" Former Guardian writer describes her journey from "fantasy to reality"'"; and "'Dangerous' woke movement broken down by left-wing commentator Claire Fox". -"It is at this point that I recall another very interesting, thought-provoking article by Peter Hitchens last August on Claire Fox who was nominated for a peerage by Mr. Johnson despite Ms. Fox's past opposition to the very existence of the House of Lords and having been a member of a strange cultish group called the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP). I know that it sounds like a clich but it really shows how decisive it is to think hard before we drop that piece of paper into the ballot box. The cynicism and preposterousness of the WHOs new political directives of allegedly mitigating inequality is shown in the fact that no other policy has done more to exacerbate inequality than the WHOs lockdowns and vaccine mandates. She doesnt want a liberal tolerant society like all Communists this is simply a front for her real wish, which is to live in a Bolshevist one, an ideology which we should never tire of repeating, has killed tens, probably hundreds of millions of peoplein the 20th century, plus of course on a lesser but still inhuman scale, leading to economic stagnation, a complete lack of freedom, huge numbers of informers and spies etc. In 1989, she joined the Royal Free School of Medicines Health Psychology Unit as a senior research fellow in clinical health psychology. I am not sure it would help. We welcome applications to contribute to UnHerd please fill out the form below including examples of your previously published work. I did not vote and pay taxes to be manipulated without my knowledge. Michie S, Rubin GJ & Amlt R. Behavioural science must be at the heart of the public health response to covid-19. What a worrying development. And, aptly enough, Buddhism is often described as a psychology and its polemics often rely on the redefinition of language and of reality (see the Milinda Panha). Nigel Smith | For it seems an average per million COVID problem . That would mean, given Indian's population of 1.3 billion, that 1 in 13 of them die annually. Please click here to submit your pitch. In any case, UK tax law is already at least 10x more complex than it should be. general approach on social restrictions would be more palatable to the long-suffering public if it was backed up by the science; even if psychology and epidemiology are two totally different subjects but there again it has never been about the science as much as the control of the masses by psychological means Ultimately, Mr. Johnson does not appear that bothered by the kind of advise he gets for as long as it suits him. You might want to check your figures there, Jaggers. The inculabor of Communism in this country can be found in the immediately pre- and post-WW2 Oxbridge. She concluded . Susan Michie certainly doesnt think so, as she told me in her UnHerd interview last year when I asked her if she was a Communist: But in this example, it becomes hard to separate politics from science. [29][30] She made a 14,000 donation to Labour under Corbyn's leadership. A row has broken out over a question Richard Madeley asked Professor Susan Michie on Good Morning Britain.After she'd questioned the wisdom of lifting the mask mandate on July 19th, he asked her whether her judgment might be influenced by her membership of the Communist Party, given the top-down, big state authoritarianism of Communist regimes, or whether her views were purely based on . "That's 4,000,000 million deaths a year, maybe, in Brazil in a NORMAL year". I believe that says all that is needed in respect of the seriousness of the situation in India. This is a practical guide to designing and evaluating behaviour change interventions and policies. During the Covid PsyOps (SPI-B) I took the time to read the minutes of SAGE meetings that were released. And so on. Susan Michie, a 40-year member of the British Communist Party and a leading participant in the U.K. Government's Scientific Pandemic Insights group on Behaviour (SPI-B), has been promoted to Chair of the WHO's Technical Advisory Group for Behavioural Insights and Science for Health.. Last year, when asked how long Britain's Covid containment measures should last, Michie responded that . ", "WHO's Susan Michie: my politics are my business", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Susan_Michie&oldid=1128378855, Experimental psychology, clinical psychology, developmental psychology, health psychology, This page was last edited on 19 December 2022, at 20:59. [9][10][11], In 1993, Michie moved to the Psychology and Genetics Research Group, King's College London where she conducted research into the process and outcome of genetic counselling, public and professional attitudes towards genetic testing, informed choice and decision making about prenatal screening and genetic testing, and the psychological impact of predictive genetic testing. (Thats not sarcasm either). Posted by: In the real world the only thing a thing can be identical with is itself. Its all about being economical with truth or fair balance. I have found this article most insightful indeed, Mr. Hitchens, thank you. Categories: Communist Party : Communism, and communists, are pure evil. Look how much their power was increased by covid-19. Tim Davie, the director-general, was challenged on the issue this week in relation to the Sage advisers who regularly appear as BBC guests. Clearly there has been an increase of these kind of scientists in policiy making. Thanks. Perhaps McCarthy had a point, something I had not considered until now. With dangerous people like her & Null Ferguson running around, it becomes hard to maintain the principle of free speech as someone who believes in it, because their words actually can wreak concrete havoc onto the population! Posted by: Their positions are completely hypocritical, and based on self interest, while they themselves sneer at others self interest. The biased liberal media obviously are genetically constructed to never give any credit to a Conservative party so they need to find negativity where they can find it. (Referring to India) The results of your proposed action for such measures are almost always impossible to measure for an ordinary person so even when it is clear that the overall action was catastrophic in outcome you can conceal it by deflecting blame and creating excuses for why it all went wrong. Including their own. Posted by: BBC and universities are full of them. 29 April 2021 at 03:28 AM, Sally "According to the article she inherited her wealth in the form of a family painting which she sold off. Why make it worse ? If you have a complaint about the editorial content which relates to It comes as England prepares to end free Covid tests for most from April 1 and the lifting of all remaining restrictions on Thursday. I suspect a lot of the rather absurd limitations on safe movement of people outside during the pandemic arose through egalitarian collectivist thinking that those who might be able to travel further safely should not be privileged. 29 April 2021 at 05:11 PM. "Americans - especially those on the Left - were anxious too: 'When a million or more people hear the same argument and appeals, the same music, when their attention is held in the same way and at the same time, to the same stimuli, it is psychologically inevitable that they should acquire in some degree common interests, common tastes and common attitudes. Registered in England & Wales | 01676637 |. We also introduce new . Everything a communist does is informed by their disgusting, murderous politics. [12], In 2002, Michie joined the Psychology Department of University College London (UCL), where she is Professor of Health Psychology. I think old commie like Hobsbawm was member of Companion of Honour. Thats why she tells you that there is no diversity or call for more personalized healthcare- Because its run by HER cabal! I am not going to deny that there are terrible things going on in Brazil and taken in isolation, 4,000+ daily deaths "from covid-19" sounds horrific. Yes there are a lot of people dying, possibly even as a result of contracting covid 19, but there are still considerably more who die every day in India from perfectly treatable issues as simple as clean water availability or a lack of an effective health system. As the contrast between the Swedish approach and the UK and continental approach to dealing with the pandemic shows a lack of a broad understanding of the need for individual choice over rigid one choice for all circumstances policies is essential. 29 April 2021 at 08:55 AM. Naturally, the state run TV news services never do this amount of investigation. To be a communist IS to be a fascist. To equalize outcomes you need the all powerful elites to determine who gets what. After all, did we really vote in a government to scare the living daylights out of us into a meek submission - or did we actually vote in and trust that our government would be competent enough to make its citizens feel safe and secure? The figure I wrote equates to 4 trillion (or 4 now defunct UK billion). Fortunately I can see through government propaganda. Meantime, Mr. Johnson has not had to compromise with anybody else in parliament thus the draconian way he has managed the COVID-19 pandemic and that Mr. Hitchens has been scrutinizing so thoroughly right from the very beginning. Ian Blackford, the SNPs Westminster leader,told the Prime Minister on Monday the decisions were bereft of science or consultation. The social justice ideological position held among Michie and her colleagues that greater social equality is desirable is not a scientific view but a political view and it is in fact essential that proper representation of voices in favour of the common desire for freedom of choice appears on such committees where mixed scientific and ideological advice is given. Her interview by Freddie reveals her to be a self-righteous bigot so your views will simply be brushed aside as of no more importance than the death of a few thousand Kulaks in the march to the nirvana where she and her scientific comrades can nudge you and command you to obey for your own good, of course. That has run out of fear-porn clickbait from the West to pull in the viewers and is scrabbling around for any scary "big" numbers it can find! I wield absolute power with zero accountability. Professor Susan Michie. And yet if we want to go privately, an NHS surgeon working privately in his spare time is available within days to carry out the op and to do that in some cases using hired NHS facilities. She continued her clinical work, consultancy and research at the Royal Free Hospitals Occupational Health and Safety Unit part-time. It seemed odd for an actual physical science expert to be a Communist. She leads the Human Behaviour-Change Project funded by the Wellcome Trust. [18] In 2020, she became a participant in the COVID-19 SAGE's Scientific Pandemic Insights group on Behaviour (SPI-B). My politics are not anything to do with my scientific advice. Banning private systems is unfair but but fairly regulating their profitability is the real nut we have to crack. Newsquest Media Group Ltd, Loudwater Mill, Station Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. This site is part of Newsquest's audited local newspaper network. Agree with you on all this. On Mastodon @SusanMichie@fediscience.org Views: own. Susan Michie's research focuses on behaviour change in relation to health and the environment: how to understand it theoretically and apply theory to intervention development and evaluation, and to evidence synthesis and translation. [31][32] She has stated that her political positions are unrelated to her scientific advice. Susan Michie certainly doesnt think so, as she told me in her. Equality of outcome usually translates to cutting down the tall poppies tax the rich until they are as poor as the poorest remove private health care in case I get an advantage through it. 01 May 2021 at 04:24 PM, You say "All of this is nothing to do with Boris or Hancock. Michie was married from 1981 to 1997 to the trade union official Andrew Murray and has three children. In short, it seems to be the nature of radio to encourage people to think and feel alike.'. It starts to feel distinctly like fundamental questions of how a society should be organised are being taken out of the political sphere where they can be debated and ultimately rejected at the ballot box and hard-wired into new scientific disciplines that are then treated as unquestionable expertise. | Permalink. The Metropolitan liberal elite Lords it over us in every aspect of our lives. I guess you could say he's taking the Michie. belongs to mathematics and is entirely abstract. This woman has been interviewed many times on the media, and yet nobody has called out her hypocrisy. Possibly quite rightly, given fascisms track record of human misery. The DUP thought Brexit was a chance to get a hard border back, but now they cling to the vestiges of their old dominance, says Irish writer and journalist Susan McKay Looks like plenty of countries need to come up with some more legislation to protect us from future PsyOps. Perhaps we should be given some options on defunding the WHO? 29 April 2021 at 03:55 PM. 28 April 2021 at 11:09 PM, Mike B "You might want to check your figures there, Jaggers. He promised to get it done and the British electorate gave the Conservative Party an absolute parliamentary majority at the last general election. Johnson has been criticised by many public health experts for moving too quickly and for failing to publish the advice the Government has received from its public health experts. Nigel Smith | Also a nuclear deterrent. But Michie admits to being a Communist; its no false accusation and its wrong to label criticism of her as McCarthyism. Sally | I am inclined to doubt it. 499 votes, 288 comments. 25 April 2021 11:20 AM The weird world of Susan Michie, an adviser to the 'Conservative' government on the Covid crisis Some readers may be interested in this account of Professor Michie, a lifelong Communist now a prominent adviser to the Johnson government: She developed a psychology service for staff, an organisational consultancy service for managers and taught a variety of professions.