What very intelligent people call "science" is indistinguishable from magical thinking. 
https://twitter.com/jonlis1/status/1338220114580279298
By the way, I see that all the pro-lockdown hysterics are outraged that Johnson is still listening to crackpots like Gupta, but what they're effectively arguing is that instead they listen to the geniuses from Imperial College, as if their track-record were any better.
Not only are the researchers at ICL who were arguing that a 2-week long lockdown in September would magically make later restrictions unnecessary are evidently incompetent, but they're also intellectually dishonest, as I showed in the post below.
https://twitter.com/phl43/status/1334892503930187777
Of course, the piece also contains this talking point, because no dumb lockdown apology is complete without it. I will have more to say about this soon...
"A tWo-WeEk CiRCuIt-BReAkER lOcKDowN wIlL PReVeNt tHE nEeD FoR mORe ReStRIcTIoNs LaTEr." (very intelligent scientist who totally knows what he's talking about and should definitely be in charge)
https://twitter.com/JustForReading9/status/1338236773302931458
At this rate they'll soon explain to us that 1 out of 10* people must sacrifice their first-born to appease Covidus, the god of pandemics, because science says so.
*1 out of 5 if you use different parameters in the model that was published in Nature (see supplementary materials)
*1 out of 5 if you use different parameters in the model that was published in Nature (see supplementary materials)
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