Originally Posted by SFO
Originally Posted by SeptemberWarrior
Granted his breaking of quarantine was to say the least, foolish, his track record in epidemiology has been pretty good. I don't know what papers you are referring to but his work on the epidemiology of a wide range of diseases has been world class. So I don't know why you think his predictions have been poor...


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politic...-fiasco-no-10-make-second-major-blunder/

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/six-questions-that-neil-ferguson-should-be-asked


Exactly. He has cost this country a fortune over the last 20 years as a result of his, with the benefit of hindsight, laughably excessive predictions. More recently he predicted up to 100,000 dead in Sweden if they didn't follow his advice. They ignored him, their death rate, adjusted for population size, is much the same as in the UK. I wouldn't trust him to organise a Pi**up in a Brewery.

And there is more if you can be bothered to look into the back history of his department and its "professional relationship" with other peer departments. There are, in my view, two issues. One is the rather rudimentary software code used and the logic gates in it, and possibly worse, the monumental ego of the man, linked to his socio-political background: his play girl is reported to be a hard left publicist for Momentum. I doubt she would be enthralled by a hard right capitalist, so we have to assume he is more a Corbynista than a fan of Boris.

Last edited by Peter J; 09/05/20 01:51 PM.

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