Negative Vaccine Effectiveness: The ‘Fact Checks’ Were Wrong Last Autumn and They’re Even More Wrong Now

 2 June 2022  The truth is I’m a bit racked off with both Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter and Tim Harford. I used to go out of my way to hear them on radio; they’re both gifted communicators, indeed anyone who can make a documentary about barbed wire a riveting listen – and Tim Harford does

Facebook versus the BMJ: when fact checking goes wrong

19 January 2022 The BMJ has locked horns with Facebook and the gatekeepers of international fact checking after one of its investigations was wrongly labelled with “missing context” and censored on the world’s largest social network. Rebecca Coombes and Madlen Davies report On 3 November Howard Kaplan, a retired dentist from Israel, posted a link to a BMJ investigation article in a

Why the Doomsday Covid models were so badly wrong

Scientists base models on human behaviour, but the projections overestimated our rush for freedom ByPaul Nuki, GLOBAL HEALTH SECURITY EDITOR, LONDON 1 October 2021 September has not been a good month for the modellers of Sage. As the Prime Minister announced his winter plan two weeks ago, they said pressure on the NHS would continue to build, with hospitalisations