2021-08-21
One of the iron rules of IT systems is eloquently and succinctly stated:
"Garbage in, Garbage out"
It's a truism that applies more widely, and perhaps we should be removing our trusting blinkers more frequently and subjecting a great deal more of what is reported to us as "science" to some searching scrutiny. This is after all the very foundation of good scientific method, in acknowledgement of the propensity of humanity in all innocence to make mistakes.
The Daily Sceptic has been scrutinising the latest Oxford Vaccine Effectiveness Study.
If like me you have begun to feel confused by the apparently conflicting effectiveness results reported by so many different sources from many different arenas, then this little exercise in critical scrutiny is well-timed.
