Richard Madeley OUTS SAGE Scientist as a COMMUNIST!
 

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Genial and popular daytime television personality, Richard Madeley found himself at the
centre of a vicious Twitter storm yesterday after he courteously invited a
scientist to deny her advice to the government as a member of the SAGE
committee was coloured by her extreme politics.

She wants the lockdown to go on and on and did not like Dickie outing her Extreme left politics

“A behavioural scientist who wants mask mandates to continue forever
freaked out and refused to answer the question when asked if her lifetime
membership of the Communist Party informed her beliefs,” wrote
conservative commentator, Paul Joseph Watson.

In another post, Watson wrote: “Reminder that ‘Communist’ Michie is literally
one of the behavioural scientists who used ‘totalitarian’, ‘unethical’ fear
tactics to terrify the British public, yet the people on here [Twitter] think
it’s ‘misogynistic’ to ask about her political beliefs.”

https://foxhole.news/2021/07/06/watc...mittee-member/

Yes he Dug that up this morning

He is not on Tomorrow
its Alastair Campbell for one day.

She should be sacked

Her face when he brought it up :laugh:

How on earth is she able to sit on a panel given her political views :shrug:

"According to communist writers and thinkers, the goal of communism is to create a society without a government or a system of classes, and to end capitalism" wiki

so you know she has got the back of business

:facepalm:

I have seen her interviewed before and she was banging on about keeping restrictions going for years :facepalm:

but that's why scientists advise and elected politicians take the final decision, i don't think it matters what her politics are. The point surely is to get a broad analysis so that we get the fullest picture

Dumb thread go derby dumb dumb.

Nobody:

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Its a Legit Viewpoint
though, Wise TS

Asking pointed, accusatory questions, demanding answers to those questions, and then drawing conclusions from a refusal to answer is not a “legit” debating tactic by any stretch of the imagination. It’s almost always an attempt to “set a snare” by the person asking the question. The ONLY legitimate thing to do when someone “demands” the answer to a leading question is to refuse to answer it - even if you have an answer.

She has extreme views which could impact her decision making

he wasnt debating her he was asking questions as a news anchor

and boy was she seething that her awful extreme politics got outed

Great journalism by Dickie.

Thats why he got that gig because he can smell a rat a mile off

great old school journalist

Professor Michie’s views on suppressing coronavirus were recently described as
“nonsense” by geneticist Professor Antony Brooks from Leicester University who has
signed an open letter calling for an end to restrictions.

“If we continue with such stringent lockdown and suppression measures, the really
nasty mutations of SARS-CoV-2 (which will always be out there - and likewise for all the
other respiratory viruses) will be selected over the regular strains,” he said.

“Instead of keeping us safe, her plan could help these strains to emerge and spread into
dominance.”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...ber-communist/

Doesn’t matter, you don’t answer “boobytrap” questions. If someone demands an answer you refuse until they ask the question more fairly. Refusal to answer doesn’t indicate stance. You should always refuse.

Someone asks “Answer the question - do you believe that _________ or not???”

You don’t answer, you don’t pander, you don’t cave to aggressive questioning. It’s an automatic loss.

There are some things that Prof Michie – whose first husband was Andrew Murray, once
a key adviser to former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn – is rather less inclined to discuss,
including money. Perhaps because she has so much of it. Indeed, she is the blue-
blooded descendant of an earl who, along with her brother, sold a family heirloom – a
Picasso painting called L'Enfant Au Pigeon – to Qatari royals for £50 million in 2013. This
didn't stop her once urging fellow Communists to support Jeremy Corbyn at a
presentation with the words: 'We, the working class…' :hehe:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...communist.html

Richard Madeley is so annoying and dithering, I've never liked his 'interview style'.

If you're consulting wiki to find out a 2 line headline to describe a political movement, then you have no business pretending the earth is falling in, over something you don't even understand.

He is a national treasure and much loved

I watched this and couldn't get his point at all.

He's rather pathetic in my view and makes silly errors.

She refused to take any of his bait which is wise with people like him and she talked fairly good sense too on the virus.

I think he's trying a bit too hard to create controversy as Morgan did.
However he's failing even at that so perhaps concentrate more on getting things more correct on the programme.

he is a complete tit

And hippies.

He is a proper Dick.
Her political views are her own, nothing to do with him.
I don’t particularly agree with her stance on Covid, but she doesn’t stand alone on it.:shrug:

SAGE have been the single biggest influence of government policy over the last 15 months so I don't see why their members political views should be immune from scrutiny, not sure the same courtesy would be extended if a SAGE member was part of a hard right movement

FYI the Communist Party of Britain subscribes to Marxist-Leninism, the ideology that Stalin was the father of and which led Soviet policy for most of the USSRs existence

Not about being immune from scrutiny, it’s about “gotcha” entrapment arguments and their place in a professional interview or half decent debate.

That being; They have no place. She was right to ignore the aggressive demand-based questioning.

He asked if her political views have any bearing on how comfortable she is with increased state powers given that Communist countries are renowned for placing great restrictions on their citizens

It's a pretty relevant question imo, she declined to answer twice and he said 'that's a perfectly fair answer and thank you for that', hardly aggressive interviewing

He can be annoying.

I also agree, it wasn't an appropriate question in my view.
She wasn't on talking about elections or anything it was about the virus.

I don't know of any other scientists or even other so called experts who have been questioned on their political stance when talking about the virus.

….she was giving a view that aligned with many other SAGE views, so the question had no relevance at all other than to try to be sensationalist in some way and to ‘create a moment’ and it was clumsy…..if she had just given him some kind of extreme views that didn’t align with her colleagues then the question would have been valid but it wasn’t and she effortlessly made him look a bit silly for asking it…it just feels like another ‘quest for outrage’ rather than seeking informative facts from a guest on the show….and over something as important as people’s lives ….he wouldn’t have backed off with his ‘fair answer’ had he had any type of point but he really didn’t, based on what she was saying and what she was saying showed her in the process of displaying to him that her policy had no bearing on her job credentials….


….what a silly man he it’s and his silliness does seem to be impacting his work, though, in contrast….

i have no idea who she is, ive never heard her in the past, but i think we should be clear on what sage's roll is

Sage typically is made up of over 80 participants, it provides a broad spectrum of scientific advice to government. It doesn't make any decisions.


1 voice in over 80 just means nothing, lets have some perspective into what part she actually plays in the proceedings

I don't think there is any outrage but it is of public interest what politics these people follow, almost like a conflict of interest form that everyone has to fill out at work?

I didn't see the relevance of his question to her considering she was on to talk about the virus.

He may well along with others see the Communist party as unsavoury as I myself do as to politics.
However individual or professional views on other subjects have no bearing on that.

Plus too, the Communist party is NOT an illegal institution in the UK.

So should all experts, professionals, scientists and advisors now be asked which Party they are members of too.

No of course they shouldn't be asked that in my view..

…to give him credit, Joey…?…I do feel that maybe he did quickly realise how misjudged and clumsy it all was, which is why he so readily retreated with his ‘fair answer’….

Just to point out, that Britain tried herd immunity first - made clear by Boris' speech in February, and confirmed by Cummings. That was not sage. Then late lockdowns, the Christmas back and forth were all Johnson working against advice, and not sage who were consistently recommending earlier lockdowns.

The government has always tried to do anything and everything else before taking the appropriate advice. Eat out to help out and taking schools to court and forcing them to open were nothing to do with sage.

Oh I get that definitely Ammi.
It was the right thing to do too.

However he isn't a novice presenter and interviewer.
He has years of vast experience.

For me, it more demonstrated he can't detach his personal prejudices from the professional expectation of himself which there should be.