Neil Ferguson said 65,000 would die from bird flu in 2005. 457 died. He said 50,000 would die from mad cow disease in 2002. 177 died. After these predictions, naturally World Bank and others hired Ferguson as an advisor as some US states have today-Voltaire, Meyssan

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US elites are gradually selling US citizens back to the UK monarchy. It makes them feel important.

April 19, 2020, “Covid-19: Neil Ferguson, the Lysenko of liberalism," Voltaire, Thierry Meyssan 

“At other times, European political leaders followed the advice of their astrologers. Today they do what the statistics specialists at Imperial College tell them to do. The latter have always served every conceivable argument to justify liberalism in public health. And now they predict millions of deaths, although those predictions lack scientific rigor. The author reveals how these charlatans have seized control of the policies applied by the European Union, the United Kingdom and various states in the United States. I mean.”

“At the beginning of the cold war it was fashionable in the West to make fun of the blindness of the Soviets who believed the follies that Professor Trofim Lysenko preached. At that time, Josef Stalin had banned the teaching of genetics and used Lysenko to justify the preeminence of Marxism over science. However, Stalin was not seeking “practical” goals. I mean 

Today, the West is affected by the same mental illness. British professor Neil Ferguson says that statistics allow predicting the behavior of living things. That is stupid but many high political leaders believe it. Unfortunately, contrary to the Soviets, these western political leaders derive from this statement political consequences that ruin their countries. I mean 

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The creation of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control 

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For over 20 years, Western political leaders have been trying to use statistical knowledge about epidemics to determine the right options in the event of danger. Following the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) epidemic in 2003, the European Union established in 2005 a European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). During the second semester of 2008, this center organized a colloquium to study whether it was appropriate to close schools in the face of a flu epidemic and to determine when such closure should be decreed and when to lift it. At that time there was no talk of declaring a general confinement of the entire population. 

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The main contribution was made by the British professor Neil Ferguson and the French researcher Simon Cauchemez, both from Imperial College London, who compared the statistical data of the closings of schools in Hong Kong in 2003 and 2008, of the provoked closure of schools in Israel due to the strike of educators in 2000, the impact of school vacations by areas in France from 1984 to 2006, the closure of schools infected with the flu in France in 1957 and statistics of the Spanish flu in certain cities from the United States and Australia in 1918. 

They also highlighted inequalities and injustices linked to school closings in the United Kingdom and the United States. 

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From then on, the problem was posed in reverse. Experts had observed that school closings had no noticeable effect on the final number of deaths but only on the speed of the disease’s spread. Its sole objective was to resolve the management of the number of hospital beds. Statistics ceased to be at the service of Europeans to put themselves at the service of an ideology: the liberal management of the State. 

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Bernard Kouchner, the French Foreign Minister who organized that colloquium, had been Minister of Health several times (from 1992 to 1993, from 1997 to 1999 and from 2001 to 2002) and from the Ministry of Health had started the reorganization of the French hospital system … but not according to medical criteria but according to a logic of profitability. In about 15 years, France saved substantial amounts of funds by eliminating 15% of available hospital beds. However, this “saving” of funds was negligible when compared to the current enormous cost of confinement. I mean 

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Professor Trofim Lysenko said that, by applying the Marxist dialectic to the natural sciences, he had shown that “petty bourgeois” genetic science was wrong. According to Lysenko, in the same way that socialism generated a new man, it was also possible to modify the genetics of plants by organizing cultivation fields. Lysenko’s idiocies were elevated to the status of official truth in times of Stalinism. The submission of science to ideology always has dire consequences.

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The charlatanism of Professor Neil Ferguson 

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Professor Neil Ferguson is classified as “the” European reference for the modeling of epidemics. However: 

*In 2001, Neil was Ferguson who persuaded the then British Prime Minister Tony Blair to ordain sacrificing 6 million cattle to stop the epidemic of foot-[in-mouth disease, a] decision [that] cost 10 billion pounds sterling [translation of “10 000 millones de libras esterlinas”] and today consider an aberration. [“foot-in-mouth disease” is translation of “fiebre aftosa.“] 

*In 2002, Neil Ferguson calculated that mad cow disease would kill around 50,000 people in the UK and 150,000 more when the disease was transmitted to sheep. There were actually 177 deaths.  

*In 2005, Neil Ferguson predicted that bird flu would cause 65,000 deaths in the UK. There were 457. 

Despite all of the above, Neil Ferguson became an advisor to the World Bank and numerous governments. 

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It was Neil Ferguson who, on March 12 [2020], sent French President Emmanuel Macron a confidential note in which he predicted half a million deaths in France. Very impressed, President Macron decided that same afternoon to order the general confinement of the French population. It was also Professor Neil Ferguson who publicly announced on March 16 that the United Kingdom would record 550,000 deaths–an announcement that forced the British government to revise its policy – and 1.2 million deaths for the United States. 

French researcher Simon Cauchemez, who until 2009 was Neil Ferguson’s right arm, today heads the modeling unit of the Pasteur Institute. Of course, Cauchemez is a member of the Scientific Committee established by the French presidency, where he proposed the general confinement of the population.

The Committee was created by Professor Jerome Salomon, Director General of Health, and also a spiritual son and former technical adviser to the aforementioned Bernard Kouchner. 

The influence of Neil Ferguson’s team is based on an intellectual swindle, according to which the so-called « mathematical biology » (sic) would justify the application of the liberal economic model to the management of health services. 

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The problem is that statistics to assess the effects of this or that measure, but only a posteriori….Statistics do not allow predicting the behavior of a living organism, in this case the behavior of a virus. You have to start by understanding that the “goal” of a virus is not to kill but only to spread. The virus only kills unintentionally, when the living organism in which it manages to settle does not have adequate antibodies. In other words, the virus does not intend to kill its carrier, nor to make a species disappear completely … simply because it would disappear with it. 

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In any case, extrapolating measures used to flu epidemics applying them to the current Covid-19 epidemic is something completely absurd: the flu affects a large number of children, which does not happen with Covid-19, which –speaking in demographic terms – mainly kills people of the so-called “third age”, diabetics and with hypertension problems. The viral load of children contaminated with Covid-19 is very light, so much so that it is not even known yet if they can become contagious. I mean 

On March 22, Professor Neil Ferguson acknowledged having made his calculations of the Covid-19 epidemic based on a database of influenza epidemics from 13 years ago. I mean 

In other words, it is no longer enough for this Western science guru to elaborate justifications for liberal policies applied to public health.Now he is also dedicated to advising the closure of entire populations. To mask the truth of this drift, Professor Ferguson’s supporters divert public attention by advising the widespread use of surgical masks, which in reality – as we already explained here – are also of no real use in the face of the epidemic [ 1] 

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The results obtained in Marseille by Professor Didier Raoult are eloquent. However, this French virologist is the subject of a campaign orchestrated against him by the followers of Professor Neil Ferguson, exactly like the Soviet specialists in genetics who were hunted down by Trofim Lysenko’s supporters.

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The controversy around Professor Didier Raoult 

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These explanations shed new light on the controversy between the supporters of Professor Neil Ferguson and the disciples of the French virologist Didier Raoult [ 2 ]. Contrary to what is stated in the press, it is not a problem of methodology. It is actually a question of finality. I mean 

Neil Ferguson is a quack who is today caught up in his own quackery while Didier Raoult is a clinical doctor. Ferguson’s adepts need the dead to believe their religion. The disciples of the virologist Didier Raoult dedicate themselves to caring for the sick. 

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We are not facing a scientific debate but rather a war of repeated errors despite the realities of science. It is surprising to hear members of the Scientific Committee of the French Presidency reproach Professor Raoult for not having conducted comparative studies with the use of placebos [ 3 ]. In the midst of crisis, they are demanding that a responsible doctor designate a group of patients who will not receive the treatment that could cure them, which is equivalent to deliberately sacrificing [murdering] them. I mean.” 

“[ 1 ] ” Panic and political absurdity before the pandemic", by Thierry Meyssan, Red Voltaire , April 7, 2020.
[ 2 ] ” Covid-19: Propaganda and Manipulation", by Thierry Meyssan, Red Voltaire , March 21, 2020.
[ 3 ] A placebo is a harmless (pharmaceutically inert) substance that is administered to a group of people during a clinical trial, while the substance whose efficacy is to be tested is administered to other patients. Note from the Voltaire Network .”