Fiona Ferris

I used to have trust but now I’ve seen The Dark.

[Fiona Ferris @FionaFerris1]

I’m a granny and don’t need any government so called protecting me. My biggest fear is for children not being able to live as freely and healthily as I have. I may need reading glasses and a hearing aid but by fuck I can see and hear well enough to recognise tyranny.

[Fiona Ferris @FionaFerris1]

@VigilantFox In my days of maternity campaigning, I often said, “cut all the plugs of the monitors and watch everything improve”.

[Fiona Ferris @FionaFerris1]

@BellaMercuria Still here. Never better.

[Fiona Ferris @FionaFerris1]

I’m a granny and don’t need any government so called protecting me. My biggest fear is for children not being able to live as freely and healthily as I have. I may need reading glasses and a hearing aid but by fuck I can see and hear well enough to recognise tyranny.

[Dr Clare Craig @ClareCraigPath]

No thanks:

(inspired by @FionaFerris1)

[Fiona Ferris @FionaFerris1]

I’m old enough to remember when the ‘folic acid prevents neural tube defects’ first became mainstream. I also remember campaign groups saying that folic acid increased the likelihood of early miscarriage. Unsurprisingly anything countering the safe and effective messaging was dismissed as nonsense. But was it?

[Fiona Ferris @FionaFerris1]

Give us this day our daily med.

[Dr Clare Craig @ClareCraigPath]

Adding folic acid to the food supply is mass medication of the entire population without consent.

Sign the petition for a parliamentary debate (below):

[Fiona Ferris @FionaFerris1]

@SamaHoole Look after your own wee bit.

[Fiona Ferris @FionaFerris1]

@joeanddan https://t.co/0EzDoa7UI0

[Andy ICEBERG Ⓜ️🎗 @iceberg4w]

Please repost help this lady & her family obtain justice & warn of the horrific abuse in NHS HOSPITALS

PLEASE DON'T forget 76 years old grandmother Valerie Kneale, who was r@ped to death in Blackpool Victoria Hospital 2018
Her NHS r@pist is still free

Her family needs justice.

[Marion Holman @Marion436842126]

1/4 If you fall and cut your knee, a scab forms as part of the healing process. We don't blame the scab for the injury; we blame the fall.
Lp(a) is much the same. It is involved in the body's response to damage in the arterial wall, helping to patch up injured areas /2

[Alan @A1an_M]

Look at that big temperature spike at the end of the Mesozoic. Shocking.
If only Ed Miliband had been around to ban heated towel rails back then, things would have turned out so differently for the planet.

[Fiona Ferris @FionaFerris1]

You decided to stop drinking. That decision still stands as the turning point for you. I made that decision in May 2013 and although I mucked (spelled with an f) up many times after that, I consider that decision to be more important than counting of days. Each “failure” helps strengthen future success. Try to enjoy each sober day as it starts rather than retrospectively as something you got through. I don’t find counting days helpful. I don’t know when I was last drunk but it was years ago. What I do know is the date I decided to change things.

[Dr Clare Craig @ClareCraigPath]

Please sign this petition to end the addition of the synthetic drug folic acid to our flour.

It's being added with the claim it might prevent ~200 neural tube defects.

The trial that claim is based on resulted in 9 dead babies per 'saved' child.

https://t.co/XzpiIGIzT7

[Alan @A1an_M]

I was living in Scotland at the time and remember this case well.

The amount of coverage in the media was minimal given the horrific nature of the crime. There were only three mentions of it on BBC UK-wide news. A huge contrast to the Stephen Lawrence case.

We've had two tier politics and two tier media for a very very long time.

This was 2004: pre Twitter and pre Elon Musk of course. It might be a different story today.

[Fiona Ferris @FionaFerris1]

@CovidMarshall Have you been on a rogue training course? Feelings? I’ve always admired you for not caring about feelings, and now…

[Fiona Ferris @FionaFerris1]

@quineofthenorth It’s a version of socialism, isn’t it? Giving away something hard earned, that actually belongs to someone else, in a perverted definition of fairness.

[Marion Holman @Marion436842126]

1/8 The mevalonate pathway doesn’t just make cholesterol. It makes the molecules cells need to stay alive: GGPP, FPP, dolichols, ubiquinol (CoQ10), and other critical isoprenoids.
Statins take those away while forcing the cell to accumulate more cholesterol, at which point /2

[Fiona Ferris @FionaFerris1]

@Nazumejud Your child has a strong loving bond with his grandmother. This is priceless. Protect it.

[GeniusThinking @GeniusGTX]

I'm obsessed with cognitive biases.

A "cognitive bias" is a built-in glitch in our brain that quietly sabotages good decisions.

These are the 11 craziest and most dangerous cognitive biases I've found: 👇

1. The Cobra Effect

[Mossgiel Organic Farm @MossgielFarm]

THAT’S BEEN MENTAL

We’re a month in, working with three organic farms in the North of Scotland AND launching Mossgiel into England with Modern Milkman UK - and wow, what a crazy month it’s been 🤯

It’s not slowing down anytime soon either - the big news will continmoo well into the summer, with announcement THREE just around the corner!

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

NHS SPENT MILLIONS SILENCING SIX DOCTORS. EVERY SINGLE ONE WAS RIGHT

Private Eye @PrivateEyeNews called them the Super Sextet. Six doctors and executives who saw dangerous things happening in NHS hospitals, raised the alarm, and were systematically destroyed for it. Not one of them was wrong. Every single concern turned out to be valid.

Dr Kim Holt @drkimholt warned Great Ormond Street Hospital that the child protection clinic in Haringey was dangerously understaffed and missing patient records. Management put her on special leave for four years. Baby Peter Connelly died. The trust spent £286,000 on consultants to investigate itself and found no management failings. Then it offered Holt £120,000 to sign a super-gag and disappear. She refused.

Steve Bolsin, cardiac anaesthetist at Bristol Royal Infirmary, spent six years documenting that children were dying at an entirely avoidable rate during heart surgery. He raised it internally. He raised it with the Department of Health. He was told to keep his head down. Between 30 and 35 children died unnecessarily. Bolsin was described at a European surgeons conference as the most hated anaesthetist in Europe. He left the UK in 1995 and never came back.

Ash Pawade turned around a catastrophic children's heart surgery unit in Bristol. When a baby died after an overworked perfusionist made a drug error caused by NHS staffing cuts, Pawade backed his colleague and called management to account. He was ordered to apologise for impugning the trust's legal team. He left the NHS without any recognition.

Dr Raj Mattu, a world-renowned cardiologist in Coventry, watched a patient die because five beds had been crammed into a ward designed for four, leaving three beds with no access to oxygen or suction. He reported it. A senior manager responded by saying he wanted Mattu off the road completely. Mattu was suspended for six years, then sacked. The trust spent over £14 million of public money trying to discredit him. He was eventually awarded £1.22 million. The CEO who oversaw the campaign against him was given a CBE.

Gary Walker was brought in to turn around United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust after seven CEOs in six years. He balanced the books and hit the targets. When a winter surge led clinicians to warn that patient lives were at risk, Walker wrote to his Strategic Health Authority. The SHA's chief executive emailed back: you need to meet targets whatever the demand. Walker was sacked in 2010 for gross misconduct. The gross misconduct was using the f-word nine times in three meetings over two years, not directed at anyone in particular.

Dr Peter Wilmshurst, consultant cardiologist at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, spent 30 years reporting research fraud, confronting pharmaceutical companies, and taking on anyone who put profit above patient safety. He was sued for libel three times by a US medical device company after accurately reporting that their product did not work. The legal battle nearly cost him his home.

The same playbook runs across all of them: suspend the whistleblower, bury them in vexatious complaints, pay management consultants to clear management, offer a gag clause, and wait for the person to break.

@NHS spent millions silencing these six people. Not one manager faced meaningful consequences for any of it.

Source: Shoot the Messenger, Private Eye @PrivateEyeNews Special Report by Dr Phil Hammond @drphilhammond and Andrew Bousfield