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[Old Blue 2]

It's been "generational" since the 1980.
NO amount of Covid or Cold Winters are decreasing their numbers unfortunately.

More an onset of paranoia caused by aging unfortunately. The same paranoia that means they vote Tory or UKIP to stop them "single mothers and foreigners" stealing their pension, their house and their "heritage" . Unfortunately as we have repeatedly seen over the last god knows how long it is the Tories blatantly doing all the stealing.

What a load of unmitigated crap!

 

[peteblue]

We love our world-beating universities though, right @peteblue?

UK science rises up against looming multi-billion-pound cuts to research

Some of the UK’s biggest names in science are stepping up pressure on the government to halt research funding cuts, which they say, would cost the sector over £2 billion a year, imperil thousands of jobs, and “damage trust and credibility around the world.”

sciencebusiness.net

“I just don’t get it, that it comes at this stage,” said Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. “You don’t have to explain the importance of [this money] to anyone these days.”

Cuts to research investment in low-income countries will harm the UK’s understanding of diseases around the world, said Piot, who was one of the discoverers of the Ebola virus in 1976. He also said the UK had an “ethical” commitment to continue research, and clinical trials, in poorer countries.

The Belgian scientist, who is the chief adviser to European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen on COVID-19, said that he would soon have to give notice to some staff at his institute that their contracts would be ending this summer.

Who is paying for this Belgian guy to advise VDL ?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

“I just don’t get it, that it comes at this stage,” said Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. “You don’t have to explain the importance of [this money] to anyone these days.”

Cuts to research investment in low-income countries will harm the UK’s understanding of diseases around the world, said Piot, who was one of the discoverers of the Ebola virus in 1976. He also said the UK had an “ethical” commitment to continue research, and clinical trials, in poorer countries.

The Belgian scientist, who is the chief adviser to European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen on COVID-19, said that he would soon have to give notice to some staff at his institute that their contracts would be ending this summer.

Who is paying for this Belgian guy to advise VDL ?

"This Belgian guy"? Fo' real? He's one of the leading epidemiologists in the world Pete (TIME person of the year in 2014 no less), and also advises the World Health Organisation. Do you remember, when you said the EU were friends, not rivals? Now you're trying to suggest that private individuals are "ours" and shouldn't be working for the EU out of some petty nationalism. The mask is slipping Pete.

 

[peteblue]

"This Belgian guy"? Fo' real? He's one of the leading epidemiologists in the world Pete (TIME person of the year in 2014 no less), and also advises the World Health Organisation. Do you remember, when you said the EU were friends, not rivals? Now you're trying to suggest that private individuals are "ours" and shouldn't be working for the EU out of some petty nationalism. The mask is slipping Pete.

All I asked was who is paying him to advise VDL.....I’m afraid the Covid issue has shown that the EU, and France in particular, are no friends of the U.K......

 

[Bruce Wayne]

All I asked was who is paying him to advise VDL.....I’m afraid the Covid issue has shown that the EU, and France in particular, are no friends of the U.K......

I'd imagine the European Commission are paying him, just as the UN or WHO would have paid him when he advised them.

 

[peteblue]

lol I'd imagine the European Commission are paying him, just as the UN or WHO would have paid him when he advised them.

So he is a freelance consultant and not an employee. So his only concern is where his next pay check is coming from....

 

[orchard]

So he is a freelance consultant and not an employee. So his only concern is where his next pay check is coming from....

Judging others by one's own standards?

 

[dead_soft]

Judging others by one's own standards?

To be fair, Peter never had to worry where his next pay check was coming from because he always had enough as a very successful Head of Important Business at Business PLC

 

[peteblue]

To be fair, Peter never had to worry where his next pay check was coming from because he always had enough as a very successful Head of Important Business at Business PLC

I could have sworn I’d put you on ignore.....

 

[Bruce Wayne]

So he is a freelance consultant and not an employee. So his only concern is where his next pay check is coming from....

Yeah, when he was working on the AIDS and Ebola crises he was only concerned about money. Good grief Pete.

 

[peteblue]

Yeah, when he was working on the AIDS and Ebola crises he was only concerned about money. Good grief Pete.

I know, I’m in a funny mood today....it’s the hot weather ....

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I know, I’m in a funny mood today....it’s the hot weather ....

You must have all the sun as its been grey all day here.

 

[peteblue]

You must have all the sun as its been grey all day here.

22C and clear blue sky, hardly any air movement......beautiful day......

 

[Jebus_lives]

Yeah, when he was working on the AIDS and Ebola crises he was only concerned about money. Good grief Pete.

AZ scientists only interested in good the public good...

Compare and contrast.

 

[spectateur]

All I asked was who is paying him to advise VDL.....I’m afraid the Covid issue has shown that the EU, and France in particular, are no friends of the U.K......

There must be some advantage in taking this view.
Certainly the UK media seem to think so.
Smokescreen perhaps?