In a normal investigative reporting world the biggest question being chased right now might be how the guy who predicted "mad sheep" and nine-figure bird flu deaths and whose model depends on 13-year-old code he hasn't released somehow has the ear of the world's governments.

But hey, @neil_ferguson says everybody loves his code! And he's not biased at all!

(Actually he didn't even say that, he said the people he'd allowed to see it were "largely positive." Oh. Talk about a ringing endorsement.) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/04/19/experts-largely-positive-computer-coding-thatled-coronavirus/