Ferguson's at best a bloody liability and at worst a complete hack. There I've said it.
He predicted 150,000 people could die from foot and mouth.There were fewer than 200 deaths.
In 2002, Ferguson predicted that 50,000 people would likely die from exposure to BSE (mad cow disease). 177 people died.
In 2005, Ferguson predicted that up to 150 million people could be killed from bird flu. In the end, only 282 people died worldwide from the disease between 2003 and 2009.
In 2009, he said swine flu would lead to 65,000 British deaths. In the end, swine flu killed 457 people in the U.K.
In March, he admitted that his Imperial College model of the COVID-19 disease was based on undocumented, 13-year-old computer code that was intended to be used for a feared influenza pandemic, rather than a coronavirus. Ferguson declined to release his original code so other scientists could check his results. He only released a heavily revised set of code in May, after a six-week delay.
Why the fuck does anyone listen to this incompetent arsehole.