Tag: Neil Ferguson

The Covid Inquiry is now hopelessly compromised by the partisan words of its own Chair. It has become an embarrassment and is jeopardising the reputation of the English legal system.

In the latest instance of lockdown backpedalling, Professor Neil Ferguson, the architect of Britain's lockdown, today denied ever calling for the first national stay-at-home order.

A major new review from the Royal Society has concluded that lockdowns and masks were “unequivocally” effective against Covid. But many of the authors are based in China and it was peer-reviewed by Neil Ferguson.

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.

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.

Lockdowns were “a global policy failure of gigantic proportions”, driven by Government fear campaigns and "fantasy numbers" from dud models, a top international team of researchers has concluded.

On Tuesday March 10th 2020, Trump flipped to support lockdowns, Italy locked down and Tomas Pueyo published his viral post that convinced millions to back extreme measures. Why was that the day the world became China?

The UKHSA stopped its Covid modelling last month, but it has already begun to model bird flu. But when is it going to address the abysmal record of pandemic modelling when compared to real-world outcomes?

In retrospect, it’s doubtful if the degree of state coercion deployed to increase vaccine uptake would have been possible without the ground having first been prepared with lockdowns and masks, writes Ramesh Thakur.

Models predicting what will happen if we don’t do something are hard to test. But models predicting what might have happened if we didn’t do what we did are impossible to test. Yet they’re used to justify lockdowns.