Professor Mark Woolhouse of the University of Edinburgh, a member of the SAGE Covid modelling group, has told the Covid Inquiry his team was never asked to model the harms of lockdown or how to avoid it.
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UKHSA's 100 Covid models that it says are the evidence base for lockdown are not science, say Professor Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson, who have now gone through and reviewed them all.
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From Covid to climate change, scientific discussion has been stifled by the 'settled science' trope, says Dr Andrew Bamji. As a long-term analyst of medical papers, he knows science is never settled.
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Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson have taken it upon themselves to appraise the UKHSA's evidence for Covid restrictions. No wonder they didn't want to do it themselves, they say: it's a complete mess.
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At the U.K. Covid Inquiry last week the Lead Counsel, Hugo Keith KC, claimed Covid would have grown "exponentially" without lockdown while the British Medical Association called for earlier, harder restrictions.
Well, it now looks as if the grandees are turning against each other, with Sir Patrick Vallance, the Government's Chief Scientific Adviser during Covid, accusing politicians of cherry-picking the science.
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Too many experts are too quick to override doubts and forge ahead with radical solutions based on over-confident models, says Dr Andrew Bamji. On Covid and climate, a strong dose of humility is in order.
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Alex Kriel has dug into the figures produced by the Mayor of London to justify the Ulez expansion and found they predict it will cut air pollution by just 1.5% while taking no account of the harms from loss of income.
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Canadian public health officials are reeling following the publication of an investigation in the BMJ criticising Canada's Covid response, though its criticisms aren't necessarily the ones sceptics would agree with.
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Life Saving has become the dominant ethos of our age, presented as popular justification for extreme policies from lockdowns to mass migration to Net Zero. It sounds anodyne but its consequences are anything but.
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