Talk:Carl Heneghan

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Not a fan!

I can appreciate the terse comment by scientist Prof Dame Angela McLean on Heneghan, as reported in The Guardian newspaper on the topic of the UK's COVID inquiry:

"Who is this fuckwit?"

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/19/science-adviser-referred-to-rishi-sunak-as-dr-death-covid-inquiry-hears

BTW, on the Article comment by Kamran Abbasi over scientific "disagreement"; I both agree with him in the general case over differences of expert interpretation, but not in the particular case of Heneghan and his Spectator article. IMO, misrepresentation is not the same thing as "disagreement". CatNip48 (talk) 20:18, 19 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]