https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/this-is-science-which-should-go-on-trial/
June 29, 2020
By Cassandra Voices
‘This is science which should go on trial’
A zoom panel discussion organised by Lindau, which included two other Nobel-prize winning scientists, provided Stanford biophysicist and Nobel Laureate Michael Levitt with a platform to vent his fury over the global scientific community’s flawed response to the Covid-19 pandemic, as he saw it.
In particular, he condemned Imperial College’s Neil Ferguson for failing to respond to his emails at the height of the crisis. He said that a flawed response had caused hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of suffering and damage, that had disproportionately affected a younger generation, and which would not substantially alter the ultimate death toll.
Levitt began by saying (at 11.41 in the video below):
One thing that strikes me is that once the virus moved from the China-Korea phase is how totally inadequate science structure is for real time science. People are insisting on refereed reports. No one wants to share anything. The scientists are more panicked and scared by reality than anybody else. The august organisations like Lindau, The Royal Society, The National Academy of Science, have been totally silent … As a group, scientists have failed the younger generation.
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**Comment**
Important quote:
Scientists are getting away scot-free for causing billions of dollars’ worth of damage and this is something that cannot be allowed to happen. It’s not just the World Health Organisation. Ferguson wanted Sweden to lockdown, got Britain to lockdown, and when the numbers become normal, exactly what you would expect without lockdown. He then says, ah it’s because of lockdown. This is terrible science. This is science which should go on trial.. – Stanford biophysicist and Nobel Laureate Michael Levitt
Levitt states Sweden is the only country who did the right thing and that herd immunity occurs at 15% NOT 80%. He also states that these epidemiologists stirred up the same panic with Ebola and Bird Flu, but didn’t shut down society. He states our mistake was listening to them. He states that the level of stupidity has been amazing…..and that it’s exactly as dangerous as the flu.
I posted on Levitt before. Here’s an interview: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/06/26/why-social-distancing-should-not-be-the-new-normal/
Here he states lockdowns likely cost more lives than it saved: https://nypost.com/2020/05/26/nobel-prize-winner-coronavirus-lockdowns-saved-no-lives/
