Infected Blood Scandal

[hidetheelephants]

Pit Pony said:

5 In a Row said:

Private Eye have been covering this for years.

Ian Hislop should get every knighthood off every Lord he exposes.

By now he'd be Lord Lord Arch Duke Lord Sir Lord Lord Lord Baronet, Lady Lord Duchess Sir Ian of Pressdram Hislop.

[every PE disliker]But they got MMR WRONG![/every PE disliker]

[Mortarboard]

Was a big scandal in ireland in the 90's as well. (Both the failure itself, and the cover-up/aftermath)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTSB_anti-D_scanda...

M.

[Derek Smith]

hidetheelephants said:

[every PE disliker]But they got MMR WRONG![/every PE disliker]

I buy the Eye regularly. The magazine, and blame rests with the editor, got MMR wrong because of their conceit. They rejoiced in blaming governments and agencies for ignoring evidence in other matters, but, when a bandwagon came on that might show them as caring and oh so clued up, they turned their backs on the rather obvious evidential lack in the conspiracy theories. They showed themselves to be just as liable to make errors as anyone else.

If one ignores those of the Kensington sects who might have been convinced by their stance on the matter - 'the Eye says it so it must be true' - or rather the victims, their offspring, then some good comes from it. Trust no one's judgement without checking the facts yourself. It made me wonder how much else that I believed from their previous exposés were just as ill-founded, and since of course.

I don’t hate the Eye. I still buy it. I don’t take on board everything they say though. But, as far as the Post Office and contaminated blood scandal go, they were correct, and helped a bit to expose the government and agency failures and lies.

I have a close relative who lost a father to contaminated blood. The frustration, the frustrations more like, and the callous obstructions from all those with the ability to block, hurt them the most.

To say it is shaming is to belittle it.

[hidetheelephants]

If it helps Hislop has acknowledged he got it wrong. I was merely getting it in before one of the usual crowd.

[5 In a Row]

Jasandjules said:

And yet again worrying evidence that indicates that the NHS and Govt can not be trusted. FFS.

I don't agree with that statement.

It's worrying evidence that some people in positions of authority can not be trusted.

They need to be held to account rather than being allowed to quietly slink away to other positions of power or given a 'golden goodbye' to bugger off.

[FiF]

5 In a Row said:

Jasandjules said:

And yet again worrying evidence that indicates that the NHS and Govt can not be trusted. FFS.

I don't agree with that statement.

It's worrying evidence that some people in positions of authority can not be trusted.

They need to be held to account rather than being allowed to quietly slink away to other positions of power or given a 'golden goodbye' to bugger off.

I know that PH has a generally negative view of Police and Crime Commissioners, a view with which I concur, but noted today that the chairman of their association has today backed calls for those “who played a part in the cover-up and the unethical and barbaric medical treatment of patients” should be held to account and prosecuted.

[hidetheelephants]

That's all very exciting but given DoH/NHS seems to have had a shredder in the files moment around the time Ken Clarke was stating there's no definitive link how is any of this going to be proven?