Neil Ferguson’s remarkable fall from grace

The Spectator ^ | 6 May 2020 | Toby Young

[Rummyfan]

It’s time our tribal chief found a more sensible adviser. This witch doctor, like so many before him, has turned out to have feet of clay

I originally had Neil Ferguson down as a kind of Henry Kissinger figure. The professor of mathematical biology at Imperial College London seemed to have bewitched successive prime ministers, blinding them with his brilliance. Whenever a health emergency broke out, whether it was mad cow disease or avian flu, there he was, PowerPoint in hand, telling the leaders of the United Kingdom what to do. And they invariably fell into line. In 2001, after the outbreak of foot and mouth, his team at Imperial advised Tony Blair’s government to adopt a strategy of pre-emptive culling, leading to the slaughter of more than six million animals. Gordon Brown consulted him about swine flu in 2009 and two months ago Boris Johnson was persuaded to put the country under lockdown after the 51-year-old boffin bamboozled him with one of his computer models.

But it turns out to be less a case of Dr Strangelove than Carry On Doctor. On Tuesday night, we discovered that the furrowed-browed scientist, who has been at the Prime Minister’s side throughout this crisis, is in fact Austin Powers in a lab coat. He’s been having an affair with a 38-year-old married woman who travels regularly across the capital from her home in south London to spend time with him. This revelation, which has to be the scoop of the year, was brought to us by the Telegraph and is the epitome of what newspapers call a ‘marmalade dropper’ — a story so astonishing it causes the typical reader to drop his toast mid-mouthful.

[Rummyfan]

Another elitist who sets the rules for the little people, then ignores them in his own conduct.

And this>

“On at least two occasions, Antonia Staats, 38, traveled across London from her home in the south of the capital to spend time with the government scientist, nicknamed Professor Lockdown,” reported the Telegraph.

Staats, we later learn, lives with her husband and two children in a £1.9 million home in south London. She’s a “left-wing campaigner” who is reportedly in an open marriage. According to the Telegraph, “She has told friends about her relationship with Prof Ferguson, but does not believe their actions to be hypocritical because she considers the households to be one.”

Ah yes, the old our-households-are-one-because-I’m-in-an-open-marriage argument. Never mind that a week before Ferguson and Staats’ first meeting, Britain’s Health Secretary had said even couples not living together must stay apart during the lockdown.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Bkmrk

[Bellagio]

This the same clown that predicted 2-2.5 million deaths in the US with his outrageous prediction. He had no idea whether quarantine, lock-downs or social distancing would have made a difference or not. He just made indulgent alarmist fear mongering hypothetical projections laced with “might”, “could”, “if not” and “if we don’t” statements that caused a world to put a wrecking ball to its economy. And the little smirk just smiled down his sanctimonious nose at the chaos that ensued. EVERY prediction he made was dead wrong. This ignoramus should be in prison.

Ferguson is a panic peddling fraud:

EXPOSED: The Man Behind the Overblown COVID Predictions! | Louder with C... https://youtu.be/OQeorYF9A-k via @YouTube

[tatown]

Ferguson is king of fearmongers so watching his fall has been particularly delicious.

[Fiji Hill]

And the little smirk just smiled down his sanctimonious nose at the chaos that ensued. EVERY prediction he made was dead wrong. This ignoramus should be in prison.

Ferguson is a panic peddling fraud:

Ferguson is one of the most evil malefactors in British history. For the harm he has inflicted on Western civilization, he belongs in the same circle of hell as Kim Philby and Klaus Fuchs.

[ground_fog]

Ferguson is getting paid..big time..He accomplished his mission

[tatown]

Great but his reputation is trash. I’ll take it.

[cranked]

“....down as a kind of Henry Kissinger figure.”

ROFLMAO, you got to be kidding me, really?!

[Jakarta ex-pat]

I don’t think you play poker.

[kaehurowing]

It’s just like The Blue Angel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANqGm-MiqQs&t

Sonst gar nichts . . . .

[philetus]

Not to the people whose opinions he values. He could care less about the opinions of the masses.

[Fightin Whitey]

"marmalade", ay?

Never heard that one before.

Who gets to lick the poon?

[canuck_conservative]

This the same clown that predicted 2-2.5 million deaths in the US

Makes you wonder how much he botched the 2001 foot-and-mouth response .... those poor animals