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Given Ferguson's track record of being out by orders of magnitude on absolutely everything beforehand, it almost seems like he was chosen to give an over the to
by collyw 3y ago
Given Ferguson's track record of being out by orders of magnitude on absolutely everything beforehand, it almost seems like he was chosen to give an over the top estimate.
- graemep 3y agoIt is possible. It is certainly common to pick the expert who says what you want them to - and to get rid of experts who say the "wrong thing" (e.g. the dismissal of UK govt drug policy advisor David Nutt).
- mike_hearn 3y agoIt would be comforting to believe that because it'd mean there were other epidemiologists who were right but ignored. Go read the works by his counterparts though, and they're all out by similar orders of magnitude.