80: Carl Heneghan: Why I spoke out against lockdown

The Brendan O'Neill Show

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🗓️ 13 January 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Carl Heneghan, professor of evidence-based medicine at the University of Oxford, joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss how lockdown failed to protect the vulnerable, the catastrophic errors of the Covid modelling, and the suppression of critical voices during the pandemic.

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0:00.0	The concept of academic freedom has gone out the window.
0:08.2	If I had Sanitra Gupta here, we'd have this discussion which would go a bit like this.
0:11.7	Yeah, they've had to go over us, but we're okay.
0:14.1	You know, but what the problem is, is the people coming through have looked what's happened
0:18.0	and gone.
0:19.0	I can't speak out.
0:20.0	Not what's happened to Sanitra Gupta or Karl Henninger.
0:22.8	I can't say the truth.
0:23.8	So in the background, thousands of people email me, contact me, tell me all sorts of
0:29.0	positions.
0:30.0	And I'm going, can you go on the record for this?
0:32.0	No, I can't.
0:33.0	I'll lose my job.
0:34.4	People will lose the job in the NHS or in university for speaking out.
0:39.0	Again, what does that say about society?
0:44.9	Hello and welcome to the Brendan O'Neill show with me, Brendan O'Neill.
0:49.8	This is a podcast in which an esteemed guest joins me to talk about the big ideas, the bad
0:54.8	ideas, the problems and the controversies of life in the early 21st century.
1:00.5	In this episode, I am delighted to be joined by Karl Henninger.
1:04.5	Karl is a professor of evidence-based medicine at Oxford University.
1:09.0	He is director of Oxford Centre for evidence-based medicine.
1:12.7	He's also a practising GP.
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