What is science and how does it relate to medicine? - “The first thing about science, it is the dealing with, the uncertainty. So you are looking at a problem and you're trying to work out the cause or where in this case, where something came from. So you assemble all the evidence and you look at it and perhaps it can be fairly obvious. Or it suggests one two or three possibilities. But you put those on the table and you say which of these is the most likely explanation for this. Well perhaps there is no likely explanation, so you then speculate that this is more likely, ‘a’ is more likely than ‘b’. How can we prove that? So you will construct some experiments or a hypothesis and the one I like, the null hypothesis, is where you do your experiments and you work out which is the most likely. I think that this is actually what should have been done with covid right at the beginning but, of course it wasn’t. We now know that there was a worldwide orchestration to shut down the fact that a lot of evidence suggests it came from the laboratory. Myself and Birger Sorensen were really sure that the changes in the sequence of this did not require actually, any further major discussion, if people would only look on the table, at all this evidence, it was as clear to anybody. But instead it was pushed under the carpet, we were ostracised, shut down, cancelled, everything. Now that is a death of science. Because we should have said and I tried to do it, I gave it to people who gave it to cabinet and to people who should have known better...”
- Professor Angus Dalgleish
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