Fergus Walsh: BBC Medical Editor and a trans connection...

'The government can always rely on us not to be really impartial'. Lord Reith , BBC director General.
I think this was in response to the miners strike 1926 but am open to correction.

Gilead in the news again on C4 News right now, on AIDS trials in Africa.

Too many of the vocal 'opinion formers' on this issue, whether that's Fox Killer, David Tennant or Fergus, have too personal a hand in this game to give an objective picture.

That is why the gap between what the are telling us the public thinks, and what the public actually thinks, is so wide.

Elite male opinions do not match the opinions of ordinary citizens...a dangerous place to be.

Especially unforgiveable for the BBC. I know Beeb objectivity is laughable but really.

The medical editor of the BBC not reporting on a medical scandal that his wife will be implicated in? Surely not. The BBC have always been totally clear on their impartiality.

Or something something.

Perhaps it is wise not to spend so much time on twitter?

Twitter or not, though, If Fergus Walsh is not reporting on important issues around Health and the Health Service because of his wife's vested interests....that is an issue.

Fergus Walsh should not be able to 'choose' what he reports on.

It is about conspiracy theorising. Like there's a screenshot going around on Twitter showing that an email to Fergus Walsh from someone who was formerly a senior media professional had been blocked by the BBC's email system.

I've attached that screenshot, see how it's been cropped to miss out the crucial details of why the message was blocked? For all we know it could've been blocked because it was too large, or had attachments that aren't allowed, or many other reasons that don't involve Fergus Walsh actively blocking the email somehow.

So instead of actual facts we get this partial information, a reference to where his wife works as if this can somehow be pinned on her, and are invited to put 2 + 2 together to make 5.

It's ridiculous.

How can we get the WPATH scandal out into the media?
I am so angry and frustrated.

It is not about "conspiracies", but about clear conflicts of interest - which usually have to be declared when in public office.

Fergus Walsh chooses not to report on a medical scandal and your reaction is to blame his wife? This is quite some misogynistic conspiracy theorising.

UpThePankhurst - exactly! I expect the BBC will be rewarded for their fealty

There is no way that this should be swept under the carpet - it needs to be on the front page of every newspaper.

I presume that Panorama is out of the question so what about an investigation by Channel 4's Dispatches?

I see that Gilead Sciences actually adopted the name in 1988, not 1987. It was called Oligogen for its first year.

We're about to have a PM who supports alternative reality, plans to introduce legal penalties for saying things he doesn't agree with (like mentioning reality), and is explaining how women owe subordination and submission and access to them in a state of undress to cheer up sad men. I'm absolutely sure he'll be all for an impartial BBC saying inconvenient things!

I suspect Jane is the last member of the public to ever have uncontrolled, unplanned, unvetted and unstaged access to that particular politician. He did not like it up him.

We need to complain and get some proper response from the BBC. Maybe the new PM could help with this - oh, wait….

Look, all of you, stop thinking! Will you all just stop thinking and just bleat the thought terminating bullshit like we tell you to. You keep making things really, really difficult it's letting information out that is much better to keep hidden, and fact shaming everyone is just mean. It's something only nasty, ugly, smelly and old people who love Hitler do. Don't make me tell my mum on you

I see that Gilead Sciences was founded in 1987. By that year a certain book by Margaret Atwood had been on best seller lists and winning literary prizes for a couple of years.

Replying to SirwWalterElliot. Veronique Walsh was appointed Gilead Sciences' General Manager of UK and Ireland operations in 2021. That sounds pretty high up, especially given that the context is the, er. British Broadcasting Corporation.

Fergus Walsh blocked the journalist who sent him the WPATH files.

Is this how we want a publicly funded institution to behave?

To ignore a subject because of personal opinion? A subject with such huge implications for child safeguarding and medical harm.

If you're so sure your opinion is right, why would you be scared to look in depth?

Hahahahahahahaha

No

I worked for an American bank back in the last century. The joke was that AVPs could read OR write, VPs could read AND write.

It did give me some amusement during covid (and not much did) when Mike Yeadon was quoted as gospel on vaccines because 'he's VP of Pfizer.' Nope, he's A VP in ONE section of Pfizer and Pfizer probably has hundreds of them.

Oh yes, pretty sure we've discussed Gilead before on FWR.

Agree totally that vps are like barely more than junior managers really in the US, she doesn’t have any influence , she just happens to work in pharma. I can’t really get worked up about this.

Well when you make such a detailed and polite request as that... NO!