Accolades for Aseem

Book early to ensure disappointment

Aseem Malhotra has gone all the way down the rabbit hole in the last year and is off the South Africa to spread his anti-vax messsage, having done likewise in India recently. The GMC say they won't investigate him because the vast majority of the British public have already been vaccinated and so the damage he can do to public health is limited. This is surely less convincing as an excuse for inaction when it comes to less vaccinated parts of the world. In any case, Malhotra is deliberately undermining confidence in mRNA technology in general, not just Covid vaccines.

Be that as it may, it is grimly amusing to see the flyer above using adoring quotes from people who fell for his low carb schtick back in the day. I wonder how anti-vaping fanatic Simon Capewell, anti-sugar zealot Robert Lustig and government-loving libertarian Shami Chakrabarti feel about their names being used to promote Malhotra's latest quackery?

It's a shame that there was no room on the flyer to quote Action on Sugar who worked out seven years ago that Malhotra was "completely mad", albeit only in relation to his views on statins and fat. Getting kicked out of Action on Sugar for being mad is like being kicked out of the KKK for being bigoted. But even they could see the signs.  

The signs were there from the very start. People in 'public health' didn't see them for the same reason they didn't spot that David Miller was a wrong 'un - they told them what they wanted to hear and so many cranks and conspiracy theorists work in 'public health' that it is easy for such people to hide in plain sight.