Wuhan lab was studying monkeypox 3 months ago...

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Very close contact is required for transmission. Hence chicken pox going through families and the peer groups of children. It is a proximity transmission that beats covid hands down. Fortunately it isn't fatal...

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So Dr Campbell is here again. Some people give him far too much credence. Overall I think he sits on a line where are lot of what he says is reasonably right (which is why he doesn't get shut down), but he somehow twists things around to induce fear and overall be misleading (which is why I wish he was shut down).


Dr Campbell was an Emergency Nurse and now has a PhD in nursing education. That is NOT a medical degree. He is in no way a medical doctor. A nurse's work is vastly different from that of a medical doctor, and nursing education is about teaching people how to be nurses. I would expect him to understand evidence and the basics of how the body works, but he is not a virologist, immunologist, epidemiologist or infectious disease specialist. And therefore is not qualified to teach those aspects of a viral pandemic. Only the aspects of how to look after patients who have been admitted to hospital and may need specialist nursing care to keep them alive.


He is 65 years old and his thesis was published in 2013, making him 56 at the time which shows he is part of the growing trend of aging nurses studying for doctorates at the pinnacle of their careers, and then retiring soon after, as Campbell has certainly done. During his career he wrote a couple of books on physiology and pathophysiology. They were well known at the time but no longer have current editions. So his work is old and his knowledge at risk of being out of date. Ten years is one hell of a long time in the health sector, especially when there's a pandemic raging.


In 2020 Campbell formed a company called Campbell Teaching Ltd which appears to be just him and his wife operating it. The registration for this company includes a classification in the category of video production, which is presumably about the YouTube videos he publishes.


These videos have received mixed reception. Wikipedia criticises them for misinformation and being misleading. That in itself is not greatly credible on its own, but when you start to watch his material it has serious elements of misinformation at times.


I have looked at some of Campbell's videos over the course of the pandemic. I don't think I've ever watched one all the way through until now. I get bored and annoyed at the discrepancies and incorrect information he presents and usually give up. This time I did look through the recent monkey pox one. On the whole it wasn't too bad, but he waffles on interminably. What he said could have been said in a couple of minutes. I saw him confuse the terms endemic and epidemic and he also said kb was kilo byte when in this context it is kilobases and he should know better. He doesn't know the terms “immunity gap” and “ecological niche” even though they are well used elsewhere.


The information about him is all from freely accessible resources on the internet. If you are going to search yourselves, his name is John Lorimer Campbell, a sometimes important distinction to find the right person among others with a similar name, eg Prof. John Campbell, PhD who is an immunologist. Different person.


His presentations all need to be watched with a hefty dose critical analysis to weed the bumpf from the sense. If you have the skills to do that, you will be looking up real information on places like PubMed.

He is an attention seeker. Like his followers...