The BBC Need to be More Careful Who They Book

The BBC have been criticised for allowing a 'cardiologist', invited to talk, on a news programme, about NICE proposals to increase the use of statins, to 'hijack' the event. The individual concerned floated unscientific views that certain (mRNA) Covid vaccines, could be behind recent excess UK deaths from coronary artery disease (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/13/bbc-cardiologist-aseem-malhotra-links-covid-jabs-to-heart-disease-deaths). The cardiologist works only for a private clinic. He based his claim on British Heart Foundation (BHF) figures that 30,000 excess UK deaths were linked to coronary artery disease. The BHF maintain that, the early phase of these excess deaths, was down to Covid infections per se. More recent coronary artery disease deaths they think can be linked to ambulance delays, inaccessible care and lengthy waiting lists. Most scientists think the BBC was wrong to allow this individual to introduce unrepresentative views that are only likely to confuse and mislead. It's not as if, experts on statins are not readily available.