Apology and transparency needed  

This is a press release that the Council of Europe issued this afternoon.As WHO Swine Flu advisors are revealed,  PACE rapporteur renews call for greater transparency  Paul Flynn (United Kingdom, SOC), former PACE rapporteur on the handling of the H1N1 pandemic, has welcomed today's publication by WHO of the list of members of, and advisors to, its Emergency Committee on the pandemic, as well as their declarations of interest.  â€œA year ago, these 15 experts told us the world was facing a grave health emergency. On this occasion, regrettably, they got it wrong: their advice led WHO, the EU and national governments to vastly overrate the seriousness of the H1N1 epidemic, wasting large sums of public money and scaring the world unnecessarily. Yet their task is not easy. They must try to predict the future, sometimes with limited data. Potentially thousands of human lives, as well...