Living proof here that they need not look like the trad devil in tails, they can be quite affable, socially good-natured, philanthropic … but they’re still monsters of the first degree.
I’ve met the type, hobnobbed with some, they’re fine until one explores the CV/resume … then the horrors leap off the page:
YESTERDAY the Telegraph reported that the ‘prominent scientist’ and head of the Wellcome Trust, Sir Jeremy Farrar, has been appointed Chief Scientist at the World Health Organisation even though he had ‘tried to stifle debate’ over the lab leak origin of Covid.
The paper was right to go into the details of this disgraceful episode that raises several questions about his fitness for this position. The truth, however, is that the ‘even though’ is much bigger than the Telegraph appreciates.
We are republishing this recent review by Paula Jardine of his insider account of the coronavirus pandemic that reveals a man with a sinister agenda behind his cheery persona.
The most charitable thing which can be said is that there are “monsters by function” and then the trad “monsters by malevolent intent”. He might be of the first kind … ambitious career path, supporting wife and family, paying the monthly dues … up comes this massive opportunity … and on the surface, it all looks like a man carving out his path in life.
Except he is either completely unaware of, or it’s been kept from him, or he reads the wrong journals or he’s too perpetually busy … but he does not remotely consider the human misery caused among “the little people”, among “the put-upon and hardpressed”.
In functional terms, ie. in terms of outcome, it’s the same result, whichever type he is.
The public fail to understand that to get to the top in any profession, you have to be a politician. Those that get to the top in science have long since left science behind. It is what is politically expedient that gets funding and prominence. The politically insignificant or inconvenient is stifled.
ReplyDeleteBut the same is true of any profession, not just science. The Law, Science, Management, Corporate business, The Police, the Military. All of those at the top are politicians following agendas that further their careers.