Modelling has frequently been used to claim implausible results from Government interventions, not least when the UKHSA claimed the vaccines had prevented 25m infections when there had only been 6m infections in total.
NHS England has defended its requirement for masks in healthcare settings by citing a model in a preprint study that simply assumes masks work, contradicting the gold-standard evidence from controlled trials.
Imperial College London scared the world into locking down with death projections based on fatality estimates that the latest data suggest are up to 20 times higher than the reality.
Is it too much to expect that someone in a position of authority will announce that the alleged threat from monkeypox is over, asks Dr Roger Watson.
We were told there was no alternative to lockdown after Neil Ferguson warned of 200,000 deaths. But official UK inquiries into previous pandemics described modellers as 'court astrologers' and advised scepticism.
The free world's first lockdowns were imposed on towns in Lombardy, Italy, on February 21st 2020 by Health Minister Roberto Speranza. What influences lay behind his momentous decision?
Software engineer David Kirkwood peers into the murk of Professor Neil Ferguson's code for his COVID-19 model and finds a sprawling, amateurish mess that was never going to produce anything of value.
Do you feel nostalgic looking back at times we were imprisoned in our homes? Would you like to commemorate this unique moment in our history in a special way? Then look no further than the COVID-19 Souvenir Plate.
Masking, green passes, closures, and Christian Drosten too – all of them were part of the same system of social, cultural and intellectual strangulation from which Germans have now been released.
According to the fruits of an FOI request, Neil Ferguson's Imperial College modelling team did not have accurate case data when they produced their infamous 'Report 9', predicting armageddon if Britain didn't lockdown.
