Indymisanthrope
Well-Known Member
Are we reading the same article? The entire thing is about the government's failure, at multiple levels, to heed the growing body of scientific evidence or even to participate in intra-EU information sharing about the crisis when the opportunity was available.In short, the UK government didn't ignore scientific advice- it has in fact been completely beholden to it.
Listening to advisers who have mitigated their response based on what they believe is palatable, without sufficiently stress testing or interrogating their conclusions =/= beholden to science. It's just a group of grown men appealing to the magical thinking of national exceptionalism (hello, yes, takes one to know one).