Back in March nearly every media outlet told us that “experts” were predicting up to 2.2 million would die due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was a terrifying number that sent us all running to the grocery store to stock up and had us lining up around the block at gun stores. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer held a moment of silence for the victims of Covid-19 on his news show Sunday.
The problem is those numbers often attributed to a team of renowned experts are the product of one expert who has been wrong numerous times. These “experts” are just one man, Dr. Neil Ferguson, professor of mathematical biology at Imperial College London.
After Ferguson fielded a series of softball question on BBC’s Today Programme, Steerpike of The Spectator suggested six questions the professor should have been asked. One of those questions is: “Has the Imperial team’s Covid-19 model been subject to outside scrutiny from other experts.”
John Ioannidis, professor in disease prevention at Stanford University observes, “Some of the major assumptions and estimates that are built in the calculations seem to be substantially inflated.”
In 2005, Ferguson told the Guardian that “up to 200 million people could be killed from bird flu.” Considering that number of actually only 282, The Spectator warns us, “That prediction wasn’t just nonsense, was it? It was dangerous nonsense.”
Watch the video as Steven Crowder explains all of the times Dr. Neil Ferguson has been wrong in the past and how he got us into this mess.
