Comments by "D. von N." (@D.von.N) on "John gets 'fact checked' by BBC" video.
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Dear Dr Campbell, I watched your previous video of you criticising the BBC article when it was freshly out. Some points were good, others less so in my view. I am not sure (don't remember) whether you did it but if not I would firstly contact the authors of that 'debunked' reporting and ask them where those 27 or so studies were instead of going on the air and saying I cannot find them. I didn't react then, but I am doing it now because to me it looks that it is becoming a worthless and ridiculous battle for nothing.
You treated the newspaper article as a medical journal with proper referencing, and, obviously, it didn't stand to that high standard. I read that article weeks/months ahead and I read it again then, and there was much more into it, in a context. And it wasn't the student who wrote that article on BBC, the student just spotted something and looked into it further from which this all evolved. Just because the person was a student (I heard a hint of dismissal in your voice then when you said it) that does not make him incapable of finding errors or challenging things. History showed us that some students are way smarter and capable of great discoveries. And finally: different people will take different things from any presentation and that has been happening with those 17k deaths, used as a red herring among covid deniers. For me it wasn't such a huge or great or big or significant story to publish, just meat stripped off a bone (waving with the bone around) and even you agree that looking at excess deaths is the best way to check the covid effect on the society. Now even BBC, with Omicron replacing Delta, added to their daily reporting of deaths within 28 days of positive testing, that some people may have died of different causes. They weren't saying it before. The modelling of deaths statistics designed for earlier and deadlier strains is no longer fit, but currently we don't have an updated method (not sure whether it will come at all). I find BBC pretty transparent overall and a great service for educating public (who want to be educated). Unless BBC, or anyone out there, reports a total nonsense I find this as nit-picking that might backfire many ways and a brief search shows it already did. Less is more sometimes, I mean, you don't need to come with something, anything, every day. Saying all that, I find you as a valuable source of information and opportunities for others to share their stories the official medicine does not seem to want to hear. Keep doing a good job and don't fall into a rabbit hole of pointless arguments over peanuts and cheap sensationalism. Once the covid as we know it will be over. Maybe slowing down is the right thing. Or switch to another topic. People will be listening.
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