I'm happy to state on record that @AllisonPearson has been conducting a months-long hate campaign against public health officials and scientists. THREAD:

1/ Allison claims that the government had been "Captured by tunnel-visioned autistic scientists" [Tweet later deleted]

2/ "It’s time the scientists went back to their labs and hobbit holes and left Earth to the humans."

https://t.co/R6gc4MRZOM
3/ "The swivel-eyed scientist John Edmunds [...] These scientists are not trustworthy."

https://t.co/LeEjSfHvJW
4/ "[...] those shifty government scientists"

https://t.co/oTtVeVtBlA
5/ Deputy CMO Jonathan Van-Tam is "revolting".

https://t.co/9cyJdZcjDZ
6/ CMO Whitty and CSA Vallance should be "locked in a cupboard"

https://t.co/khMt9wiyhw
7/ "Whitty and Vallance should be sacked"

https://t.co/LTvlvq1HWy
https://t.co/4ACQqq0yDP
8/ "Whitty and Co are Martians. They attempt to describe and categorise human existence but they don’t understand it."

https://t.co/DdmOVGQsv7
9/ "[...] the geeks of SAGE regard their lowly lab rats"

https://t.co/m4fhm2AdYe
10/ The Scientific Advisory Group England "need to be purged"

https://t.co/gMFmaFNrdc
11/ "SAGE is a group or upper-middle class Marxists with no idea that most people have to earn a living"

https://t.co/qGRP1teNwg
12/ "Professor John Edmonds is the worst"

https://t.co/siIw9zYlzS
13/ "This scientist looks like he was grown in a mushroom shed [...] obsessive geeks."

https://t.co/lEJDINjmaW
14/ Repeated themes of dehumanising and bullying comments run through Pearson's Telegraph columns, too.

https://t.co/9adv34uOAZ
15/ Whitty, Vallance and SAGE should be "charged with high treason"

https://t.co/Xd6HkNMle8
16/ "Tunnel visioned doomster scientists"

https://t.co/Xd6HkNMle8

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