Prof. Ferguson, Government Chief Adviser, is a Dud. So is the SAGE Group.
Output from both Government and Media on Covid19 has been characterised by confusion and hysteria. Central to this is the U.K. Government’s Chief Adviser on Epidemiology, Prof. Neil Ferguson, of Imperial College, London. While Ferguson is considered an “expert” in these matters, other experts disagree with him, and his work has attracted massive criticism. First and foremost, the model he is using to make his predictions is not open to other scientists. Openness and the formal process called “Peer Review” are essential to science. Without that transparency, anything he says should be disregarded. Except, perhaps, his statement to the Financial Times that “We don’t have a clear exit strategy at the moment.” That’s about as useful as the residents of Grenfell Tower being told by the Fire Brigade to “Shelter in Place.” The only good news here is that, even though Ferguson doesn’t know the way out, others do. Top Epidemiologists such as Doctors/Professors Wittkowski, Giesecke and Iaonnidis, are all featured on this site. Read on, and watch the video interviews.
For more disturbing information on Prof. Ferguson, a recent New Statesman article is very informative (here.) Some key points are:
In 2005, Ferguson said that up to 200 million people could be killed from bird flu. In the end, only 282 people died worldwide.
In 2009, Ferguson and his Imperial team predicted that swine flu might reasonably lead to 65,000 UK deaths. It killed 457 people in the UK.
In 2001 the Imperial team influenced government policy to carry out the total culling of more than six million cattle, sheep and pigs. Other experts said that Ferguson’s modelling on foot and mouth was ‘severely flawed’ and made a ‘serious error’.
