Martin ZiziThe Belgian professor of Physiology, who lives in California, is a physician trained in cardiology, molecular physiology, public health and biophysics. He graduated from the Catholic University of Leuven (UCLouvain) and has taught at various academies in the US and Belgium. He did postdoctoral research at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and the University of Maryland. He previously served as Chief Medical Scientific Officer and Chairman of the Bioethics Committee of the Belgian Ministry of Defense.
He was one of the founders of the Belgian Veterans Administration and led the scientific expansion of the Brussels Burn Unit. He has taught physiology at the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Belgium's two top universities, Leuven and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VU), and led three active research programs. He has served as an expert advisor to the United Nations and as a biological weapons inspector in Iraq, and acted in high-stakes, high-market value litigation for the biopharmaceutical industry. He is a full member of the Forbes Technology Council and is an entrepreneur. Innovative Mobile Medical Technology.
Dangerous injections for children
This interview is about Gigi's involvement with the European Union Institutions. COVID He was Petition to the European Parliament (Track your progress here) was signed by 189 EU public health and care authorities, doctors and academics, and supported by experts from non-member states. Constitutional Children's rights Article 24 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European UnionThis petition is medically and legally Children Corona-related products were completely unfavorable for them in terms of cost-effectiveness.
In the interview, with documentary evidence projected on screen, Zigi himself explains how the Petitions Committee of the European Parliament (PETI) handled the petition:
To make a long story short, the EU institution did not have to agree to such a petition (which, incidentally, is another constitutional right recognised by the EU), but did Congress has a constitutional obligation to proceed according to its own rules and therefore listen to us, but it has done neither of these.
Our petition was ended over the summer holidays without notice to me (again, in violation of their own rules) until it was too late. Our petition was submitted in January 2022 and ended without fuss in August 2022.
Between September and December 2022, I had numerous interactions with the European Parliament, its Secretariat and the Parliamentary Petitions Committee responsible for such procedures. They were deadlocked and contradictory. EU Ombudsman The Ombudsman, who was asked for relief, said on October 11 that the closure without even holding a hearing for the petitioners was Political The Ombudsman has the power to decide Administrative Our complaint was out of scope regarding this issue.
I believe this egregious handling of a major current issue, without even being afforded constitutional due process, is a serious matter.
Gigi's argument is that the petition committee, in order to forestall legal arguments, misinterpreted the signers' petition as merely expressing concerns about the policy.
He said in an interview that there were strong indications that the petition committee received instructions from MEP Margrethe Oken, the mother of Danish MP Ida Oken (notorious for her 2016 World Economic Forum article). Republished ForbesThey urged the committee (which aims to abolish private property by 2030) not to accept the petition, explaining that they had been informed that the petition had been deliberately mischaracterized as “far-right” in order to create a harmful impression in the eyes of committee members.
“Neil Ferguson is well known among epidemiologists as being a bit of an oddball.”
After the 30 minute mark, the interview moves to the advising role of Professor Neil Ferguson in pushing for non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) in the coronavirus era, primarily masks and the withdrawal of freedom of movement. A few years ago the UK column highlighted Professor Ferguson's questionable public health science in a documentary about the UK government's response to the 2001 foot and mouth disease outbreak. Massacre on suspicion (2014). Zizi says:
This is the gospel of a false religion. If mathematical medicine existed, we would be teaching it in universities. There is no such thing. Mathematical modeling (simply) helps with logistics. It is a useful tool. It is also called smart management. It also helps with casualty management during major disasters. But you should not make public policy decisions based on logistics! Logistics is Support medical; it is not (intended) Take the lead It's medicine. And what Neil Ferguson of Imperial College and his ilk have been arguing for the past 20 years is to lead that effort, not support it.
Referring to the UK government's mass cattle slaughter policy in Cumbria in 2001, he added: “It was a huge disappointment.”
I understand this quite a bit. Since the 1990s politics has been run by images and communication officers, not by solutions. So it's more important to have an image of a burning firewood to communicate “the government is doing something good for health” than to solve the problem. Maybe that's why the firewood. But this has public health implications. When you incinerate the carcasses of dead animals, you do it in an incinerator. It's a closed system. If you do it outside, the carcasses don't burn well and the virus is still alive and can rise up. The virus rises, so there are scientific papers on all the spreading smoke caused by firewood for FMD. It would never have happened if this wasn't a scientific solution. In fact it wasn't (for now). So they made the problem worse. That's what Neil Ferguson was about. He made the problem worse.
Zizzi then applies this “time machine to explain how poor decisions can make crises worse” to the coronavirus era.
I don't blame politicians for their mistakes. Mistakes are forgivable. What I can't forgive is lying on top of a second or third mistake. That's not something that can be easily forgiven. Basically, they created a model of SARS-CoV-2 casualties based on fake mortality rates that are not real, because they didn't use the right inputs. You put garbage in the model, you get garbage out. You can make the model say: Anything (…)
What is truly shocking and reprehensible is that in the UK, e.g. Every week The models, and the British government, like other governments, always showed the worst-case scenario because they thought that the public would be compliant and accept the lockdown. So, in essence, it was an unnecessary pseudo-solution, supported on the basis of shoddy work. And that's why the Imperial College study was tainted (…)
Neil Ferguson, you are wrong. You are a doomsday omen. Now you throw your hands up and say you made a mistake. No, you need to take responsibility for that. You will be famous, but it will not be for your science.
The Party Whip will undo everything in Magna Carta
Starting at the 40th minute, Professor Zigi elaborates on his concern that “basic principles of democracy” are being lost in the European Union, as in China and Russia, especially as political parties force elected representatives to vote against the interests, evidence and conscience of their constituents. Today's “top-down decision-making cycles” threaten to take away all our freedoms. Comparing the various official COVID-19 responses at state and county levels in the United States and the European Union, Professor Zigi asks: Can decision-makers divide society into essential and non-essential? Has the divine right of kings been replaced by the abuse of power? The sacred right of parliament?
