Keep scientists in the research room and out of politics | Fiona Fox
Briefly

Matt Hancock's views about the independent experts advising government, detailed in the Lockdown Files, are revealing.They were totally unreliable and wacky (Dame Kate Bingham); a totally offside loudmouth (Sir Jeremy Farrar); and a prize idiot (Prof Jon Deeks); while Prof Sharon Peacock, the amazing scientist who set up Covid-19 Genomics UK Consortium (COG-UK), was deemed a total outrage, because she didn't warn him months earlier that the Alpha variant was coming (revealing Hancock's misunderstanding of the work of these genome sequencers).
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