Rambling Reflections of an Old Geezer

When we started Trust the Evidence, we decided to stick to the facts as we could ascertain them. We decided to draw conclusions only when we could and avoid witch hunts by naming and shaming.

As time passed, we realised that powerful people had witch-hunted us, so we decided to expose a few by naming them. Pride of place - of course - went to the former UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock, who regarded folk like us as enemies.

We looked at the evidence on various topics, told stories, made the odd joke or two, and injected a bit of irony into what we felt were appalling situations. Examples included referring to members of the  MHRA’s ​​Commission On Human Medicines (CHM) COVID-19 Vaccines Benefit Risk Expert Working Group as “secret squirrels” and making up press conferences based on President Biden’s plentiful gaffes. 

Our controversial jokes started in September 2020, when in the Daily Mail, we referred to the “Dad’s Army of highly paid individuals with little experience of the job at ha…