Britain's preeminent medical journal was today accused of giving hardline Covid scientists too much clout and risking being one-sided with its 'Covid inquiry'.


The British Medical Journal (BMJ) last week launched a multi-part series delving into the Government's handling of the pandemic. Editors pledged articles would analyse both the successes and failures. 
Yet so far, almost all the published pieces have leaned heavily on members of a left-wing group of experts called Independent SAGE, which has repeatedly criticised No10 for ditching restrictions too early. 
The self-appointed panel famously lobbied for a Christmas lockdown last year and called for mask mandates to be brought back during April's Omicron resurgence — despite both waves fizzling out naturally without crippling the NHS. 
Influential members of Independent SAGE, which include an active Communist party member nicknamed 'Stalin's nanny', have also previously likened children getting Covid to child abuse.
The BMJ, a 180-year-old publication, defended its decision to feature the group so heavily, despite pleas from top experts to widen its net and end its dependence on 'similarly-minded' voices. 
Scientific arguments on how best to deal with Covid have drastically changed since the start of the pandemic in early 202, with vaccines blunting the threat of the virus by morphing it into something that closer resembles flu — a seasonal virus the country lives with every year. 
Professor Karol Sikora, a world-renowned oncologist and one of the first to publicly warn of the collateral effects of lockdowns, said there was a risk of the BMJ presenting too much from one side of the debate. 
'Denying lockdown harms is futile and regardless of whether you agreed with every restriction, the vast damage is undeniable,' he told MailOnline.
'We need a comprehensive discussion on what went right and what went wrong.
'Investigations conducted by participants purely from one side of the debate will achieve very little'. 





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The BMJ's editor in chief Dr Kamran Abbasi (left) has defended the publications heavy use of Independent SAGE members in its recent series of Covid articles.

These members include Professor Martin McKee (right) from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine





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