RE: Parliamentary Science & Tech Committee2 Jul 2020 22:14
HI @c7, I was trying to stay away from the topic of the Parliamentary Science & Tech Committee as it gets me too wound up! But we posted about this yesterday and to uses Inans words (i paraphrase):
"Nothing but advertising, showboating, congratulating themselves for their "amazing acheivement"... Labours Dawn Butler most pertinent question was challenging the GOV Advisors .. on "language"!
Basically as far as i know no real mention of funding(?), Sir John(?), the Canadian guy was the only impartial one their saying betting on just two vaccines was a risk and talked about importance of T-cells, but on both oocasaions the coversation wasn't reciprocated/came to an abrupt end.
As far as i could tell no one questioned about other projects or how Oxford/imperial was validated/selected/panel reviewd or more importanty how it was funded. It was IMO just a big indulgent back slapping session, almost solely focused on Oxford and it's production. I'm fairly sure other vaccines/projects weren't even properly mentioned? @LL may know better.
But can anyone tell me if the government/UKRI have providedn funding to other projects outside of Oxford/Imperial yet? I have a feeling there was a small list (i.e. edinburgh uni) but the amounts were piffling in comparison.