{"id":118382,"date":"2023-11-20T21:02:13","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T21:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/boris-johnson-bamboozled-by-science-covid-inquiry-hears\/"},"modified":"2023-11-20T21:02:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T21:02:13","slug":"boris-johnson-bamboozled-by-science-covid-inquiry-hears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/boris-johnson-bamboozled-by-science-covid-inquiry-hears\/","title":{"rendered":"Boris Johnson &#8216;bamboozled&#8217; by science, Covid inquiry hears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/2moJvFVM50M\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Boris Johnson 'bamboozled' by science, Covid inquiry hears\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2moJvFVM50M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Sir Patrick Vallance, the UK government\u2019s chief scientific adviser during the pandemic, revealed that the then prime minister, Boris Johnson, found it a struggle to understand some graphs. Vallance, giving evidence to the Covid inquiry, said Johnson last studied science at the age of 15 and \u2018would be the first to admit it wasn\u2019t his forte\u2019, and he had the habit of pretending to misunderstand things to test out whether an alternative could be true. An extract from Vallance\u2019s contemporaneous diary said the prime minister was at times \u2018bamboozled\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Patrick Vallance, the UK government\u2019s chief scientific adviser during the pandemic, revealed that the then prime minister, Boris Johnson, found it a struggle to understand some graphs. 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