Abstract

The authors comment on, and discuss the flaws inherent in, a recently published review by the Chair of Global Public Health at the University of Edinburgh which concluded with her summation that some scientists just refuse to accept that they “got in wrong” in their discussion of many of the faults with the way governments, scientists and clinicians in general handled the response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. We suggest that this polemic has added nothing useful in terms of meaningful discussion of the pandemic, and worse, belittles the conflicting cogent arguments that there is indeed a wealth of data which has not be adequately understood/interpreted, and lessons which can be learned from so doing.