The main methodological approaches employed - modelling, econometric research, micro-economic studies and case-study research - all face challenges of accurate and timely data and the intractability . I am not sure it would help. That is why, as an influential member of Sage (an oxymoron if ever there was one), she pushed for maximum lockdown. 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. And Prof Susan Michie, a SPI-B advisor who wants social distancing to last "forever," insists that opening up society is like building terrifying new "variant factories." Dangerous experiment.. 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. 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. Only when government announced eat out to help out scheme more covidiots came out. The. No-one who declared themselves a fascist would be allowed a major role in such an organisation. Slight exaggeration there!!! 29 April 2021 at 03:22 PM. [9], In 2019, Michie was named winner of the British Psychological Society Research Boards Lifetime Achievement Award for her world-leading work creating a coherent language of behaviour change.[13]. But what IS wrong with Johnson and Hancock is that they keep on letting SAGE do this and get away with it. This woman has been interviewed many times on the media, and yet nobody has called out her hypocrisy. Although not an interest unknown to previous governments. Are you sure you want to delete this comment? To be a communist IS to be a fascist. That would mean, given Indian's population of 1.3 billion, that 1 in 13 of them die annually. Nigel Smith | Email Address:(Not displayed with comment. DU is used in armour plates in heavy tanks and in armour-piercing ammunition. I am inclined to doubt it. We want our comments to be a lively and valuable part of our community - a place where readers can debate and engage with the most important local issues. Martin | The Brexit the ugly Barbican and the Covid 19 helped the choice to go to Mnchen sure. Susan Michie . What is so Good About Democracy? Its about subliminally putting over a scare message, without appearing so to do. When has there even been, and how could there ever be, an equal society? Its no longer what you know or how clever you are - its how you present yourself, what you say, body language, expressions and emphasis on certain words. But point of nudge units was to encourage compliance by great majority and that was achieved. Hit**r & Goebbels sure used this very tactic too back in the 30s. Posted by: Please click here to view our media pack for more information on advertising and partnership opportunities with UnHerd. Posted by: . Professor Susan Michie, an adviser to the UK Government on pandemic behavioural science, was questioned by BBC Scotland's Kaye Adams on Monday morning. Professor Susan Michie has told LBC it is wrong to say schools are "safe" as millions of pupils face staying at home from January 4. Taking even more tax from the rich is not. Clearly there would be much less demand for private medicine if NHS ever functioned properly. And has suffered 190,000 COVID deaths since the start of the pandemic! In 2022, she was appointed Chair of the World Health Organisations (WHO) Technical Advisory Group on Behavioural Insights and Sciences for Health. "It was a [very] fair interview and you had ample time to present your view. 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. Have you tried typing National Socialist? 01 May 2021 at 04:24 PM, You say "All of this is nothing to do with Boris or Hancock. The concept of equality ( 1 = 1, 1 + 1 = 2 etc.) Equality: Where everyone is perfectly equal. But like them, I too am not bound by a rigid belief which makes it easier to see what is happenijg the difference is that I am following infornation to arrive at a position of truth, as opposed to deliberately distorting infornation to conceal it. No, the Big, Rich Parties. [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. Susan Michie is Professor of Health Psychology and Director of the Centre for Behaviour Change at University College London and a member of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behavioural Science (SPI-B): 2019 Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) James Rubin Reader in the Psychology of Emerging Health Risks, King's College London This is a practical guide to designing and evaluating behaviour change interventions and policies. She is a chartered clinical psychologist and a chartered health psychologist, and a fellow of the British Psychological Society. Paranoia it was not! Posted by: The problem with Prof. Michie is that she is not a public health expert, she is not medically trained, and she is not and never has been a scientist. Progress | As usual, it sounds like a lot of woke gibberishhow do we make societies fairer and root out inequalities? First, tackle the enormous wealth transfer going on in plain sight then! During the Covid PsyOps (SPI-B) I took the time to read the minutes of SAGE meetings that were released. Susan Fiona Dorinthea Michie FBPsS FAcSS FMedSci FBA (born 19 June 1955)[1] is a British academic, clinical psychologist, and professor of health psychology, director of The Centre for Behaviour Change[2] and head of The Health Psychology Research Group,[3] all at University College London. Us? Professor Michie's co-panellist, a fellow scientist at UCL, Dr Shikta Das, said: "I think Susan has made a very good point here," adding that the vaccine roll-out has created a "false sense of security". Briefings designed this way for the masses, who barely even know what a graph actually is, but believe what they are told without question. Brexit has hastened the decline of the once dominant Ulster Unionist party (UUP), too. Every one is different, with different talents and skills, which have different worth at different times and in different places. Also I doubt flights incoming from India to England have reduced one iota . London overground trains between Shepherds Bush and Clapham were empty in March to May period in 2020. Most sane people want a more equal society, but not one imposed top down which would be contradictory. contact the editor here. Posted by: Lets treat her accordingly. My Italian friends say that you can only work in public or private medicine in Italy. Unless you have some spare capacity in the system, it will always be so. Im not sure where you can draw the line. Posted by: Categories: Communist Party Registered in England & Wales | 01676637 |. The broadcast news media are some of the biggest offenders. Most in demand consultants would go private, so NHS would loose their expertise including training of new doctors within NHS. "RT @MaajidNawaz: A 40-year member of the Communist Party of Britain - Susan Michie - has just been appointed Chair of WHO's Technical Advis" They may fool other people but more fool them. When Boris or Hancock open their mouths its BIT and SAGE thats actually speaking. She is also an advisor to the British Government via the SAGE advisory group[4][5] on matters concerning behavioural compliance with government regulations during the COVID-19 pandemic. They believe in masks for you but are not able to remember to put one on when they visit a shop. Michie was married from 1981 to 1997 to the trade union official Andrew Murray and has three children. The WHO appointment is a further example of the ideological capture of organisations. 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. The Liberal establishment see themselves as arbiters between left and right, like tennis umpires acting impartially. Indeed it was her justification as far as Sage was concerned. So it is awaiting moderation even after putting asterisk in. Ive always quipped that if there was no emergency, the SAGE cabals income will SAG. Charitable status of private schools is subtly regulated by requiring the schools to provide free means-tested places which is the sort of regulation I mean. The Behavioural Insights Team also known as the Nudge Unit is now a social purpose company. "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. One Twitter user remarked: So much for the BBCs impartiality. Those ads you do see are predominantly from local businesses promoting local services. From 'Noise: A Human History', 29 April 2021 at 05:11 PM. A Gannett Company. She is a frequent contributor on. There is certainly very litle actual electoral support for Michies political beliefs (and never has been in this country). He who controls perception can mold any opinion he wants. My own experience and study shows that equality is usually bought at the expense of liberty and a free society and this is not a trade-off many people (and certainly not most) wish to take. > @Jaggers 27th April 2021 at 4:18pm In this, he states that on 12 March 2020, following a briefing (he does not name who briefed him, but states the briefing was witnessed), he wrote a blog which claimed the government was pursuing a strategy of herd immunity in relation to COVID, and that this was the prevailing view of the Prime Minister, his ministers and scientific advisers. Co-Director of the MSc in Behaviour Change and responsible for Psychology BSc 2nd and 3rd . Prof Susan Michie, the director of the Centre for Behaviour Change at University College London, and another member of Sage's behavioural science subcommittee, tweeted: "Allowing community. Apparently, a great number of working class Labour electors voted conservative. That sees OVER yes 10, not 100, MILLION death per year?!?! It is not in financial interest of consultants to eliminate or even reduce NHS queues. Their positions are completely hypocritical, and based on self interest, while they themselves sneer at others self interest. "It is also perfectly clear that appeals to racism and refugees of another colour was playing a role in that debate." The communists really were out to destroy the West, a bit like the woke ideologues these days. [31][32] She has stated that her political positions are unrelated to her scientific advice. 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. Professor Susan Michie's academic profile Mike B | adeledicnander | Remember how she shared around SAGE a smear letter denigrating Profs. Susan Michie is Professor of Health Psychology and Director of the Centre for Behaviour Change at University College London and a member of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behavioural Science (SPI-B): 2019 Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) The sort of communist collectivist viewpoint represented by Michie does not provide this essential element for sound decisions to be taken. Professor Susan Michie, Director of the Centre for Behaviour Change at University College London, sits on a sub-group for the Government's SAGE advisory body. The truth of the matter is that in the community masks of all types fail to protect and fail to prevent transmission, and this is quite evident when one actually looks at the data for SARS-CoV2 by simply comparing neighboring regions with very similar demographics. Communism, and communists, are pure evil. [9], Michie worked as a clinical psychologist with children and families at the Royal Free Hospital, London. Just use the words National Socialist instead, N**i Schmatzi, say Werner Von Braun! Tom Lehrer 1965. He claim that her politics do not affect her scientific judgement is a nonsense, since much of what she is seeking to nudge is not scientific. 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. (Whatever your views on vaccine the roll has been a lot more efficient than most of the rest of the world, including much of Europe. ) Ultimately its the tactics that matters when it comes to tyranny, doesnt matter if its commie, fascist, n**i, theocracy, plutocracy or whatever benevolent-sounding tale those on the podium proclaim. But is it fair to make a scientists private politics part of the story? British professor who is member of the Communist party appointed as chair of WHO advisory group,, . Susan Fiona Dorinthea Michie is the granddaughter of Henry McLaren, the 2nd Baron Aberconway, an Eton-educated Edwardian industrialist and Liberal MP. 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. Another example of double standard. You cannot assume that these people are as selfless as to pursue some form of purist ideology that will cause them harm or inconvenience in exchange for upholding their alleged principles. The member of Independent Sage and government adviser on Health Psychology told LBC's Matt Frei that "delays and last minute decisions" over whether schools would be open are "really difficult for everyone." BIT was created in 10 Downing Street in 2010 as the world's first government institution dedicated to the application of behavioural sciences to policy."-. And I think that the kind of articles you referred to are a really disturbing kind of McCarthyite witch hunting, which I dont think should have any place in a liberal tolerant society. contact IPSO here, 2001-2023. Posted by: Carl Heneghan & Tom Jefferson for starters, and of course the 3 authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, and the list goes on! 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: Susan Michie certainly doesnt think so, as she told me in her. 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. Professor Susan Michie, Director of the Centre for Behaviour Change at University College London, will chair the WHO's Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on Behavioural Insights and Sciences for. Incidentally, some people including researchers suspect exposure to depleted uranium was a major component of Gulf War Syndrome(and maybe even ME, Fibromyalgia etc). In September 2021, the Free Speech Union crowdfunded around 25,000 for the legal fees of a train conductor who had been fired by West Midlands Trains for a Facebook post including the comment "I don't want to live in some sort of alcohol-free Muslim caliphate just to beat Covid-19". 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