I don't think it was malice in this case, though I get your point. I think the people that did the models were just incompetent and also shaded them to be overc

I don't think it was malice in this case, though I get your point. I think the people that did the models were just incompetent and also shaded them to be overconservative because they felt it would be better (so slightly fraudulent, perhaps). But all evidence points to the IHME to just be terrible at their jobs and influenced a country to massively over-react.