Episode 47
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.
References
How ‘Professor Lockdown’ brought covid-19 into Downing Street
Nature Special Report: The simulations driving the world’s response to covid-19
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01003-6
Code review of Neil Ferguson’s model
https://lockdownsceptics.org/code-review-of-fergusons-model/
Study on grasshoppers in Texas
https://www.pnas.org/content/117/13/7271
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