1. The impact case study (with .@MartinNeil9) on our #Bayesian network applications that was chosen as part of the .@QMUL#REF2021 submission achieved the highest possible rating 4*. Normally it’s not possible to know the rating for individual submissions...
2. Reason we know is because the QM Computer Science impact results were ranked joint top in the country – with 100% 4* ratings (so all 6 CS submissions were rated 4*). Here's a public summary of our case study from QM Press Office (apologies for typos!) eecs.qmul.ac.uk/research/featu…
3. The full submission included testimonies about critical applications with international organizations that cannot be made public because of confidentiality. The #Bayesian network software referred to is .@AgenaRiskagenarisk.com
4. For research outputs (i.e. publications) QM Comp Sci was ranked 7th out of the 90 Comp Sci Department submissions. Another outstanding achievement.
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1. On 3 March I put out this blog post probabilityandlaw.blogspot.com/2022/03/why-ar… asking why UKHSA (in their March covid vaccine surveillance report) were putting out potentially highly misleading data on stillbirths by vaccine status.
2. I also did a video explaining how misleading it could be: . Instead of comparing rates for vaxxed v unvaxxed women they grouped all unvaxxed with those vaxxed prior to (but not during) pregnancy into a single "no doses in pregnancy" category.
3. This "no doses in pregnancy" category was used as a surrogate for ‘unvaxxed’ - but stillbirths to women vaxxed prior to pregnancy were in the surrogate unvaxxed catgegory. The new UKHSA covid surveillance report continues with the same obfuscation: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…
Hey .@Twitter: why did you send me an email promoting this abusive tweet from .@K_Sheldrick to .@DrAseemMalhotra even including the f*k word in the email title? you also promoted it on my thread even though I do not follow Sheldrick.
1. @alexandrosM and .@phillyharper are doing great work in exposing problems with the way the Together study and the narrative around it were intended to deliberately downplay benefits of Iverm**in as an early treatment of C*vid.
And this is just the cost to taxpayers of the illegal loans which will never be repaid. There’s also the astronomical costs of (legally😉) paying millions of workers to stop working whether they wanted to or not
And don’t even get me started on the £40billion (and rising) wasted on useless track & trace and testing
2. However, this thread by bluecheck .@GidMK from Dec 21 has been brought to my attention. It attempts to discredit the claims made by Tess Lawrie and .@PierreKory. But a little investigation shows that .@GidMK claims are themselves misleading.
3. His basis for discrediting the claims are a) the Unitaid grant was $32m not $40m as claimed, and b) the grant was announced in 2019 not 2021. But he misses the key fact that Liverpool Uni issued this press release on 12 Jan 2021: news.liverpool.ac.uk/2021/01/12/liv…
1. The latest UKHSA covid vaccine surveillance report provides a figure that suggests no increased risk of stillbirth in women who are vaccinated. But, as pointed out by .@SoutarHamish those vaccinated prior to pregnancy are included in "no doses in pregnancy":
2. This is outrageous obfuscation. Even though the rest of the report contains lots of detailed raw data, there's no raw data provided to answer the simple question:
"Is the stillbirth rate higher for those unvaccinated than those vaccinated (before or during pregnancy)?"
3. To see how easy it is to arrive at a figure like UKHSA provided, even if stillbirth rates were significantly higher in the vaccinated, consider the following hypothetical example data for 20,000 pregnant women broken down into the 4 categories: