I would recommend to the requestor to go through some of the free for consumption virology and immunology courses available from various universities globally. https://www.virology.ws/course/ This one is done by an experienced virologist who takes an interest in public education.

They are requesting simple answers for very complex questions. While something may work effectively at a population level it can still fail for a small subset of individuals. This does mean the evidence for an action taken at a population level is fatally weak. Also we do not yet understand enough about the immune system and human biology to be able to reliably identify unexpected individual reactions. Again, this does not mean the chosen action is a failure.

Many thanks James, will do. Do they provide funding sources, conflicts of interest and information they have relied on along with those conflicts? I will have a look when I get a chance.

In the case of Vincent Racaniello's course he has a long published history and has been a professor at his University for quite a long time. Any recent papers where he is an author will list any possible conflicts of interest.

Also simply having a possible conflict of interest does not invalidate the actions or statements of a person. By becoming an expert in an area one will often build up a collection of possible conflicts of interest. The important thing is that they're known and accounted for.

Thanks James I agree it doesn’t validate a person’s professional experience. However what we are seeing now is that academics and experts who have been relied on pay absolutely no price for being wrong. “Conspiracy theorists” months ago were saying mass vaccination would compromise long term immunity but the experts said this wasn’t the case, now UK and Scotland data confirm immunity is compromised in the double jabbed and the WHO are warning boosters will do this too. So until people have something to lose the experts can be wrong all they want but keep getting a pay check and are still given a platform. I suspect what will come back from this request will be lies, obfuscation and we have relied on Pfizer information. The more people they force this on the more the data can be skewed because there are likely no proper control groups in what is effectively a national drug trial. And the horrific injuries supports this as per Medsafes on data.

Oh and just to add to this a certain epidemiologist is calling to mask kids as young as two. That definitely won’t cause respiratory issues, learning difficulties and anxiety throughout their lives. Do you think anyone in the media will pushback on this?