Hard to know really. I think it's likely the big question at the time was how bad will this get. And they did run and use this simulation. Frankly people who ar

Hard to know really. I think it's likely the big question at the time was how bad will this get. And they did run and use this simulation. Frankly people who are willing to use this for anything should have no say in anything more important than their own papers. There is the great (Carl Sagan?) quote "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence". If other parts of the puzzle are of the same quality, I want to see heads rolling. The PCR test for example.