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| 'The strange bedfellows of Professor Panic |
| 2020-05-15 |
| [Conservative Woman] A LOT of attention has been given to Professor Neil Ferguson’s dubious track record on epidemics and his equally dubious judgment in meeting his lover on at least two occasions during the lockdown introduced on his own advice. On closer examination, there are two especially significant elements crying out for independent investigation: the quality and reliability of Ferguson’s computer model, and the political affiliations of his lover. ...Which leads us neatly to the second facet of the affair – the actual ‘affair’ and the politically radical lover. Professor Ferguson, 51, is said to be estranged from his wife Kim, with whom he has a 17-year-old son. He is reported to have used the match-finding website OkCupid a year ago to meet Antonia Staats, 38, currently married and living with her husband and two children. Ms Staats is a Left-wing campaigner who works for the US-based online network Avaaz, an organisation that promotes global activism on, among other things, climate change. The Guardian has called Avaaz the globe’s largest and most powerful online activist network, and it has a world-wide following of around 10million people. It is loosely connected with Bill Gates, through the World Economic Forum, which also lists Al Gore and Christine Lagarde on its board. Staats works as a senior campaigner on climate change for the group, and is said to be sympathetic towards the aims of Extinction Rebellion. Indirectly, on the surface at least, this ties Ferguson to climate change, a cause that the lockdown has served very well by managing to shut down the world economy. Related: Neil Ferguson: 2020-05-10 Model: Universal Mask-Wearing Would Do More To Reduce Infection Than Indefinite Lockdowns Would Neil Ferguson: 2020-05-10 Destruction of the Imperial College's Ferguson model by some top Google people posting anonymously. Neil Ferguson: 2020-05-07 The War between Experience and Credentials |
| Posted by:Bright Pebbles |
| #5 The issue is not that he had an affair — reportedly he has been separated and she is in an open marriage — but that the proponent of national quarantine deliberately broke quarantine multiple times... that she is a Parlour Pink is just icing on the cake. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2020-05-15 14:45 |
| #4 But does she know Kevin Bacon? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-05-15 08:47 |
| #3 And before someone embarrasses himself, don't even bother bringing up Alan Turing. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-05-15 08:31 |
| #2 Yes, yes. Had a leftie lecture me about how Andrew Gillum's drunk / drugged escapade with a male escort in a Miami hotel was "his private life" and had no bearing on his suitability for public life. What's next? I have to sponsor olive oil parties in my living room? No. Thanks. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-05-15 08:29 |
| #1 If you wanna criticize Ferguson, criticize him for using a program he doesn't understand (based on equations written in 1927). Though, in fairness, he's no worse than the rest of his field. Not, over who he's sleeping with. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-05-15 06:45 |