James' Empty Blog

We refer the interested reader to  Betteridge’s Law . End of post. Ok, I will add a little more. This is the  title of our latest (last?) pa...

I’ve mainly focussed on Vallance, partly because he was the Govt’s Chief Scientific Advisor and also co-Chair of SAGE (along with Whitty) bu...

I’ve sent the following letter to the Public Inquiry, noting the significant and repeated inconsistencies between what Vallance has recently...

One thing that all the protagonists (myself included) agree on is that SAGE’s estimate of doubling time in mid-March was of critical importa...

Ok I’m going to do a bit of analysis of Vallance’s evidence to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, focussing specifically on the events of the mid-Marc...

The currently ongoing Module 2   describes its aims thusly: This module will look at, and make recommendations upon, the UK’s core political...

  I can see I’m going to have to go over all this again. It’s not a task I really face with much enthusiasm, but it doesn’t seem like anyone...

As you may have noticed, there hasn’t been a lot of science getting done here recently.   The basic reason for this is that we’ve decided to...

 

Many years ago, I played chess as a schoolboy. Not all that brilliantly, but good enough for the school team which played in various competi...