I expected debate and disagreement about our ideas, published as the Great Barrington Declaration. Depressingly, our critics have also taken to ridiculing the Great Barrington Declaration as ‘fringe’ and ‘dangerous’. According to Wikipedia, for instance, the Great Barrington Declaration was funded by a Right-wing think-tank with links to climate-change deniers. But let me spell it out, since, apparently, I have to: I did not accept payment to co-author the Great Barrington Declaration. Professor Sunetra Gupta is an infectious disease epidemiologist and a professor of theoretical epidemiology at the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

Source: Daily Mail October 30, 2020 23:51 UTC