...I predict that not one journalist will choose to investigate this important discrepancy between the written record and Vallance's statements to the Inquiry. And not one other scientist involved in this sorry affair had the integrity and guts to correct him either.

....that SAGE referred to a doubling time of 5-6 days as late as the 18th March, and it was not until the 20th March that the figure of 3 days was mentioned by SPI-M (and it was not until 23rd March that the SAGE group considered this evidence)..

...which was that the primary reason for the change in scientific approach was the realisation that the doubling time was only 3 days rather than 5 or more. Vallance claimed that this realisation occurred over the weekend of 14-15 March, but the Inquiry notes ....

Sure. But I bet it’s also useful having parents kindling a particular interest in their children too (sometimes).

but the effect is surely much stronger and pernicious for academic supervisors than familial relatives

wow that's really grim. Mind you it's not as if cheating is hard anyway, for anyone who wants to...

At least these guys actually are James Annan - there’s been a middle name Kofi for a while (he’s actually quite a guy from what I can glean) but now this Dadzie is a new one. However, firstname.lastname is *me*, dating back to the time when you could get such addresses without adding numbers…

I don't think there is necessarily any deprivation involved, milk production is variable and it would be straightforward to skim off (!) a bit for human use without the calf going hungry.

18 in Yorkshire! "E lord, she be thin" www.yorkshire-dialect.org/humour/yorks...

Maybe they got the wrong idea what CBA stands for :-)

I doubt they include things like lost productivity either.