Speaking in a personal capacity, Professor Thomas House, who sits on the Government’s SPI-M modelling team, said scientific rows over pandemic policies have become “the most toxic they have ever been” and called for “genuine compromise” between those with opposing views.
Professor House said: “I am fed up with the attitude of some scientists who polarise this debate and do not allow for discourse.”
His comments come as a new study suggests those who claim to be “following the science” may simply be discounting evidence that runs counter to their beliefs.
The paper found most of the research into the management of Covid has taken one of two approaches ‑ mathematical modelling or analysis of real-world evidence.
To date, the modelling approach has been preferred by policy makers, with proponents of the evidence-based approach being “dismissed, mocked and even shunned”, the researchers found....<<<Read More>>>...