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<blockquote data-quote="matthew" data-source="post: 2880166" data-attributes="member: 169"><p>The reaction from Liz Wellington came as a shock to us too, Frank.</p><p>For years we have supported a targeted method of culling TB infected wildlife, as well as screening cattle. And amplified DNA, or PCR technology seemed a very good way. In practice, it proved to be an excellent way, and Mrs. Quinn (on the video) and others have used it on a private basis.</p><p></p><p>So when Prof. Wellington threw her teddies out of the pram and spat that she couldn't condone culling infectious badgers, identified by her tests, that was a shock.. As was the fact of a scientist pioneering a process, and then dictating its use.</p><p></p><p>My co-editor describes this as 'group conformity'.</p><p></p><p>Defra do not want to cull badgers. End of. They speak quite openly of 'pump priming' farmers to accept the concept of vaccination. Thus all the groupies who surround them will say black is white rather than break ranks.</p><p>Even on the blinded trial of PCR technology, Defra lie about its results.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://bovinetb.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/we-cant-tell-which-badgers-are-infected.html" target="_blank">http://bovinetb.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/we-cant-tell-which-badgers-are-infected.html</a></p><p></p><p>The other thing with Wellington's qPCR is that if an outbreak of this grade 3 zoonotic pathogen is found, it isn't a farmer's job to deal with it. It's Defra's or Public Health, or both. That is the level of seriousness attached to Tuberculosis. And that, they do not want to do.</p><p></p><p>Brutally, we do not need qPCR to screen out and target infected badgers. We have reactor locations and can overlay those maps with badger colonies, tracks and setts. But for PR, any cull would be a better sell if it had a bit of 'science' behind it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="matthew, post: 2880166, member: 169"] The reaction from Liz Wellington came as a shock to us too, Frank. For years we have supported a targeted method of culling TB infected wildlife, as well as screening cattle. And amplified DNA, or PCR technology seemed a very good way. In practice, it proved to be an excellent way, and Mrs. Quinn (on the video) and others have used it on a private basis. So when Prof. Wellington threw her teddies out of the pram and spat that she couldn't condone culling infectious badgers, identified by her tests, that was a shock.. As was the fact of a scientist pioneering a process, and then dictating its use. My co-editor describes this as 'group conformity'. Defra do not want to cull badgers. End of. They speak quite openly of 'pump priming' farmers to accept the concept of vaccination. Thus all the groupies who surround them will say black is white rather than break ranks. Even on the blinded trial of PCR technology, Defra lie about its results. [URL]http://bovinetb.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/we-cant-tell-which-badgers-are-infected.html[/URL] The other thing with Wellington's qPCR is that if an outbreak of this grade 3 zoonotic pathogen is found, it isn't a farmer's job to deal with it. It's Defra's or Public Health, or both. That is the level of seriousness attached to Tuberculosis. And that, they do not want to do. Brutally, we do not need qPCR to screen out and target infected badgers. We have reactor locations and can overlay those maps with badger colonies, tracks and setts. But for PR, any cull would be a better sell if it had a bit of 'science' behind it. [/QUOTE]
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