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Is There a Model That Can Predict the Future?

Professor Ferguson has a track record of bad predictions in multiple pandemics. I cross swords with him actually in Parliament about this because he predicted a huge number of deaths and they've only had 5,000. He's never been right on anything. The idea that just because you can write a mathematical equation, you are going to be able to foretell the future is I'm afraid up there with astrology, it's a dangerous myth.

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