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What is also extraordinary is that Spiegelhalter is on the SAGE science committee that shapes the government’s #COVID19 policies and yet he has to make this savage attack on the government’s presentation of statistics in public. Something has gone seriously wrong with...
the operation of the government machine. Given his high reputation in the statisticians cadre, you would have thought he would have been asked by No10 how most usefully you present the data. And I assume @BorisJohnson now regrets praying Spiegelhalter in aid when saying now...
is not the time to compare the UK’s mortality rate with that of other countries. If it was not true already, the PM turned Spiegelhalter into the oracle, though the one largely ignored by government
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