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If only all the studies that do not publish their code got half this level of criticism.

Well most of science doesn't matter. This was used to introduce cataclysmic policy changes.

This was hardly the only element that UK policymakers had to take into account. By the time this study was published, numbers were already accelerating and most of Europe was already in lockdown.

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.

What position are you taking here, and which cataclysmic policy changes are you talking about?

Well, all the corona laws that have been passed - or did I misunderstand?

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