EPISODE · May 9, 2020 · 27 MIN
Was the LOCKDOWN MODEL wrong?
from Mallen Baker: Faultlines · host Mallen Baker
In this round-up of the week, as 'Professor Lockdown' Neil Ferguson falls from grace the computer model that kept people off the streets comes under fierce attack. The global covid-19 blame game goes up ten notches. And new research challenges our theories of why insects may be in decline.ReferencesHow ‘Professor Lockdown’ brought covid-19 into Downing Streethttps://www.businessinsider.com/neil-ferguson-transformed-uk-covid-response-oxford-challenge-imperial-model-2020-4?r=US&IR=TNature Special Report: The simulations driving the world’s response to covid-19https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01003-6Code review of Neil Ferguson’s modelhttps://lockdownsceptics.org/code-review-of-fergusons-model/Study on grasshoppers in Texashttps://www.pnas.org/content/117/13/7271
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In this round-up of the week, as 'Professor Lockdown' Neil Ferguson falls from grace the computer model that kept people off the streets comes under fierce attack. The global covid-19 blame game goes up ten notches. And new research challenges our theories of why insects may be in decline.
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