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Can we trust Neil Ferguson’s computer code?

8 May 2020

10:34 PM

8 May 2020

10:34 PM

Newspapers aren’t the place to debate expert advice on a crisis. Advisors advise, ministers decide. We should keep politics out of science.

These three cries – and numerous variations upon them – have become common refrains as the UK’s increasingly fractious debate on the lockdown, the science behind it, and the best way to lift its various restrictions rolls on.

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