Some "scientists" developed a model to test whether or not non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) worked.

I bet you can never guess what they showed?

Brief post…someone just sent me a Medscape article citing this study.

The lead author works at the UK Health Security Agency:

Medscape reported (accurately for once) that:

Limitations included the scarcity of reliable evidence, a lack of confounders/risk for infection in individual communities, and potential over- or underestimates of interventions' impact.

But they still managed to conjure up this headline:

The methodology section in the paper is of the type which has the potential to put writers of satire out of business:

Summarising, what they actually did was this:

They created a model into which they fed assumptions based on opinions from people who were convinced that NPIs worked, and to their great surprise this model predicted that NPIs worked.