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Bartholomeus Lakeman
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FOI Reference: FOI2020/06373
10/06/2020
Dear Bartholomeus Lakeman
I refer to your request where you asked:
Freedom of Information request - Scientific’ advisers: Is their position that of an
independent third party; free of a conflict of interest?
Dear Prime Minister's Office,
Your and/or the Gov-‘ decision to quarantine people (thereby disturbing children’s
educational, psycho-social, and physical development, as wel as restricting or
disturbing people’s independent and vocational means of earning and living their lives);
relies on your ‘scientific’ advisers:
a) Is their position that of an independent third party; free of a conflict of interest?
b) Did your advisers disclose their current or previous relationships with the
pharmaceutical industry and institutions and/or its funders or interest groups; or did they
disclose a conflict of interest?
c) How did you avoid to have blindspots and groupthink (closed ranks): a col ection
of advisors from the same background, the same field, the same institutions, serving on
multiple panels, or serving one particulair interest group?
d) What have you and/or the Gov done to prevent that commercial interests are not
in control of key decisions about the public's health?
e) On or about 18 May you had a meeting with Bil and Melinda Gates and/or BMGF:
did said meeting bear any relationship with said advisers?
f) Regarding these questions and for to serve an independent position; should or did
you consider the fol owing issues?
1) In 2008, Chief Medical Adviser Prof Chris Whitty, accepted, $40 mil ion from Bil
Gates to control British vaccine promulgation: and he stated “COVID-19 vaccines and
drugs would need to be in place before measures could be lifted … ":
2) The Imperial Col ege; Neil Ferguson for Covid-19 mortality predictions (0.5 mil ion
in UK) accepted £184 mil ion from B. Gates.
3) Patrick Val ance (5-12 yrs.) GlaxoSmithKline ex-director, he chairs SAGE which
was created by Bil Gates for to advise WHO & UK gov- on vaccine & immunization
policies, research, development, and delivery systems;
4) Gates is the main donor & stakeholder of the Global Al iance for Vaccines and
Immunization, Welcome trust and Pirbright institute who claims to have a patent SARS-
CoV-2 and produces its vaccine. He is the main and most influential funder of WHO via
which he implements the vaccination of the global population.
5) Prof J. van Tam served the interest of the pharmaceutical industry 1997 - 2000, as
an Associate Director at SmithKline Beecham. In April 2001 he moved to Roche as
Head of Medical Affairs, before joining Aventis Pasteur MSD in February 2002 as UK
Medical Director. He chaired the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
(ECDC) Expert Advisory Group on H5N1 human vaccines, sits on the UK national
Scientific Pandemic Influenza Committee (SPI), the UK Scientific Advisory Group for
Emergencies (SAGE) and was a short-term consultant and temporary adviser to the
World Health Organization on many occasions. On WHO/van Tam’ advice of was a
mass vaccination by H5N1 human vaccines from which Roche and GSK each earned
bil ions £. And said industries was not held liable for the damaged inflicted on thousands
of people by their vaccines.
6) Professor Dame Angela McLean, Deputy Chief Scientific Adviser, her career and
professorship was funded via the Imperial Col ege; as by Bil Gates
7) Sharon Peacock, the director of the National Infection Service: Welcome Trust
(BMGF)
8) Maria Zambon, director of Reference Microbiology Services at PHE and head of
the UK World Health Organization National Influenza Centre (BMGF)
9) Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wel come Trust (BMGF)
10) Dr Edward Mul ins is a clinical lecturer at Imperial Col ege (BMGF)
11) Dominic Cummings and Ben Warner are related to an artificial intel igence
company for data-mining operation which was teamed up with Palantir, founded by the
rightwing bil ionaire Peter Thiel, who shares biotech startups with Bil Gates.
I am writing to advise you that fol owing a search of our paper and electronic records, I
have established that the information you requested is not held by the Cabinet Office.
You may wish to try contacting Department of Health and Social Care at this link:
https://contactus.dh.gov.uk/, or Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
at this link: xxxxxxxxx@xxxx.xxx.xx, who may be able to help you with your request.
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