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Prof Michael Levitt: here's what I got wrong [re: COVID]
2020-08-30
[Unherd] Professor Michael Levitt, Nobel Prize winner and Professor of Structural Biology at Stanford, was one of our early interviews during the lockdown era. Partly due to that interview, which has been watched over 750,000 times on YouTube, he became one of the best known dissenting scientists, arguing that the trends of Covid-19 were revealed in the numbers, and that they were much less scary than most people thought.

At the end of July, he made a prediction that Covid-19 would be "done" by August 25th. It was shared across Twitter. He agreed, back then, to come in to our new studio once the date had elapsed, to see how his prediction fared…

Posted by:Clem

#3  It's actually refreshing to hear a professor admit he's wrong, why he was wrong and what he'll do differently the next time around. This is so rare nowadays.
Posted by: Raj   2020-08-30 14:00  

#2  /\ So he should keep his day job?
Posted by: Clem   2020-08-30 07:48  

#1  Should've gone into economics - where explaining why your predictions did't pan out is routine. Better still, should've stuck to his own field - biophysics.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB   2020-08-30 01:55  

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