News Round-Up
15 May 2024
...were accepted by the Imperial team. Background To put the role of the Imperial Model in the proper context, it’s worth reminding ourselves of the situation as it stood in...
...their work. After the UK Spectator called attention to the Swedish results last spring, Imperial College tweeted out that “Professor Ferguson and the Imperial COVID-19 response team never estimated 40,000...
...Lockdowns certainly will reduce social contact and, likely, the R-rate to some degree, but not as much as the Imperial team believes. The Imperial college model is a thing of...
...the Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team responded to criticism of its code by saying the Government “has never relied on a single disease model to inform decision-making”. “Within the Imperial...
...particular political viewpoint inevitably encroaches on academic freedom. Imperial should scrap this guidance.” Toby Young, director of the Free Speech Union, said: “This bizarre guidance gives the impression that Imperial...
...of fatalities – providing the impetus for lockdowns. Early in the pandemic, Imperial College London’s Report 9 modelled the impact of Covid based on a publication by Verity et al....
John Armstrong, a Reader in Financial Mathematics at King’s College London, has written an excoriating piece in the Spectator about the capture of Imperial College by the woke cult, with...
A reader who describes himself as a “normal person” has tried to make sense of Imperial College’s notorious March 16th paper. He doesn’t have much luck. Imperial College really needs...
There follows a guest post by Lockdown Sceptics regular and second-year maths student Glen Bishop. I thought I would just write with a few points from the Imperial College paper...
Phillip W. Magness in AIER has crunched the numbers and shown how poor Imperial College’s modelling has been at predicting the outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic under different policy responses...
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