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[PilotWolf]

Slightly off topic but...

I raised repeat issues with training and safety - particularly fire and got fired(sacked) on some BS excuse.

A few weeks if not days after that 30 odd people died on the dive boat fire here in California.

it comes down to either ‘it won’t happen’ or the bottom line of ‘we can’t afford it’.

Had that been one of the boats I worked on it could have been 300 not 30.

PW

 

[Daydream believer]

Read the whole lot. I'm generally not known for posting complete bollocks. Prof Ferguson has history for flawed forecasting.

I did not intend to get into a slanging match with you. I would rather that this remains friendly debate, without animosity.
I certainly do not intend to subscribe to the first 2 ,so will only refer to the third.
On that it clearly says COULD, in your first post you said WOULD. Now if the subscribed posts also said COULD then you MAY have made a mistake. So I will agree on "part b..x"

As for the BSE matter you will note that the article refers to the fact that he was using 2006 data, which one assumes ( without having any info to the contrary)was the known facts at the time. Now I am not trying to defend him at all. He might be a total prat- somehow I doubt it. What I am trying to do is point out miss information. the report then goes on to a 2011 report stating that the data was flawed. Well that was 5 years later. Is that not a case of hindsight?
. Data recording is now far more accurate. It would be very easy to criticise the mistakes made in earlier reports by NF but he made his assertions on the data AVAILABLE AT THE TIME. His modelling of that data is questioned, but once again if that is the recognised method is it his fault entirely? Did the final outcome achieve its aims? I do not know, but if it did ( did we have any significant cases of BSE afterwards?) then he did have some success, did he not?
Then one has to ask- Is there anybody any better? The media loves to knock the govt. It sells newspapers