Royal Institute Christmas Lectures
If any of you missed this years series on viruses I would strongly recommend that you catch up on I Player, they were a very informative set of talks on viruses in general and Covid in particular, presented in an easily understood format suitable for the non scientist.
Personally I will watch these programmes for a second time to ensure that I extract the maximum amount of information from them because, what struck me very forcibly was, that many of the opinions bandied about by the media and on sites such as this, are ill informed and mistaken by authors with little understanding of the subject or the difficulties faced by the scientists that have to research the subject, and those that have to make decisions on the results that science provides. What seems to be the situation is that it's HEADS I win, TAILS you lose.
Personally I will watch these programmes for a second time to ensure that I extract the maximum amount of information from them because, what struck me very forcibly was, that many of the opinions bandied about by the media and on sites such as this, are ill informed and mistaken by authors with little understanding of the subject or the difficulties faced by the scientists that have to research the subject, and those that have to make decisions on the results that science provides. What seems to be the situation is that it's HEADS I win, TAILS you lose.
