Observations

Science is a continuous journey of discovery – or it should be. There is no such thing as “the settled science”. This is a concept dreamt up by those with political and economic agendas to control dissent and it should be laughed out of every university and research establishment in the world.

True scientists know that theories which come to be generally accepted are always going to be subject to review and revision over time. This is part of progress. The world would be a boring place for our young people if there was nothing left for them to do because everything had been “settled”.

A natural consequence arising from this search for knowledge is that information in the scientific world is freely shared – nationally and internationally. There are all manner of benefits accruing. For example a paper written by a scientist in Cape Town might deliver ‘the missing piece of the jigsaw’ in a theory being worked on by a group of scientists working out of the University of Oxford. There is also a long tradition of submitting the results of your work to scrutiny by your peers across the globe, to ensure it stands up.

So there’s the wonderful world of science… and then there’s the EU

When the gonorrhea scare made the headlines in 2018, it was genuinely said that Brexit would cause the UK’s and the EU’s disease control scientists to be unable to cooperate with each other any more. This was then held up as one of the many reasons why the UK should not leave the EU.

If newspapers at the time had been doing their job – and if they had not for the most part been so anti-Brexit – this idea would have been ridiculed. Why on earth should Brexit prevent scientists from sharing information? What’s more, in this case we are talking about scientists dealing with potential outbreaks of harmful diseases. Who would want to prevent that from happening?

The answer of course was - and is - the EU, and specifically the EU Commission and all the agencies which rely on it for their money, including the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) in Stockholm.

After 10 years of daily study, it is our firmly-held opinion that the EU Commission has a deeply unpleasant, vindictive, and authoritarian side to its nature which runs throughout the body. From the moment on the morning of the Referendum result when the Commission’s President declared their intent, (“This will not be an amicable divorce” – Jean-Claude Juncker, 24 June 2016), to the present day, the Commission is intent on punishing the people of our Islands for daring to leave their clutches.

What kind of ideological insanity drives these people to harm their own citizens?

In the case of the disease control centres of the UK and the EU being prevented from cooperating together normally, this provides an example of just how far the Commission is prepared to go. Nothing, it seems, is off limits. And if this means that the publics of either side suffer, so be it.

The supreme irony of it all…

It will not be lost on readers that the supreme irony in this report is that it turns out it is our European neighbours who have seen a huge spike in the incidence of gonorrhea since Brexit. We are sorry this is the case, naturally, but it is important that things like this be reported.

Finally, for completeness, the UK has always had a higher incidence of gonorrhea that most EU countries, but this has nothing to do with Brexit and it certainly wasn’t affected by our membership or of our departure. The point about this report is the huge increase in gonorrhea in the EU, not the level each side started at.

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