False beliefs among scientists, politicians and opinion-makers is having detrimental effects on public health and education.

The UK Covid-19 Inquiry into the 2020-2021 coronavirus pandemic highlighted a culture of secrecy in the UK Cabinet Office at the beginning of the pandemic. The evidence to the Inquiry demonstrated false beliefs among those at the highest level of Government, leading to confused evidence being presented to the UK Cabinet at a critical stage in the management of the pandemic. There was “complete chaos”.

International institutions

It is possible that the 2020-2021 coronavirus pandemic was the last straw for public trust in major institutions. Former surveys used to show that public trust in journalists was very low but for doctors was very high and for politicians somewhere in between. However, with the pandemic, it has now reached the stage that even medicine is being discredited in the public mind. Which doctor can we trust? The obsequious behaviour of the WHO towards China early in a global pandemic, the vested interests of officials involved in the vaccine production, the mis-information by official bodies and the cancelling of opposing voices will make the 2020-2021 coronavirus pandemic a turning point in global history. Analysis of behaviour BP (before-pandemic) and PP (post-pandemic) will be worth considering. The refusal to repurpose medicines and to boost immunity with known agents was a notable feature of over-all control of the pandemic. This does not augur well for the bold power-grab by the WHO for global control of future pandemics at the “say-so” of its politically-appointed Director General.

The growing over-reach of international organisations needs to be challenged. They are useful for consultation and collaboration but they are dangerous for political control of nation states. Citizens do not vote for them and cannot remove their personnel. This is not democratic and it is evident that nation-states are losing democratic principles.

The pandemic has highlighted the incompetence of politicians, scientific bodies, and medics. Medical institutions, big pharma, and their kinsfolk are too big to manage and their incompetent managers are in practice unaccountable.

Britain

People wonder why Britain is losing its way in the management of public affairs, with uncontrolled immigration, teenage murders, and thieving activity to such an extent that the public have lost confidence in law and order. Public commentators regularly speak of two-tier policing, two-tier justice, etc.  Our international reputation has led other countries to warn tourists about the risk of mobile phones being stolen while visiting London and the police will not act upon it nor respond to shop-lifting,

People are discussing how loss of trust in authority has arisen from the discovery by the general public of the prevalence of vested interests in so many areas of life. There is now a danger of “science becoming the slave of vested interests”.

The conscientiousness formerly taught by the Judaeo-Christian ethic through UK primary schools was abandoned decades ago, and Britain is now reaping what has been sown.

There is hardly an area of UK public life which is not affected by endemic corruption – church, politics, government, education, business, health care, etc. What has gone wrong at the heart needs to be put right at the heart. The Gospel of Jesus Christ goes to the heart and begins at the heart. It is time to re-introduce it in our schools, where the national rot began a few decades ago.  Our children have been short-changed and the nation is suffering.

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The Replication Crisis and scientific credibility.