Prof Nutjob Ferguson predicted 200 million deaths from bird flu in 2005, there were a few hundred only, worldwide. Oh yes our leading SAGE boffin!
No he didn't! I presume you are just taking that from the spectator 'list of questions that he should be asked', but it doesn't hold up to even a passing examination. If you find the comments that are referred to, you can see that they were made in response to a question about a hypothetical scenario proposed by the WHO under which H5N1 mutated to allow efficient human to human transmission, and was very clearly a back-of the envelope comparison to Spanish flu rather than a scientific 'prediction'. A politician would never make the mistake of giving a direct answer to a question like that! Can you blame them when people are so uncritical of 'facts' that they read in the news?