>Rival science teams at Imperial College and Oxford University that gave conflicting advice on coronavirus were born out of a sex smear that splintered the academic world.
>Researchers offered contrasting views last week with a study from Imperial College, which is informing government policy, warning the disease could claim up to 250,000 lives if stricter measures were not enacted.
>Meanwhile, a study from Oxford University warned the virus could have already infected as much as half of the UK population.
>Sunetra Gupta, a professor of theoretical epidemiology who led the Oxford study, told the Financial Times: 'I am surprised that there has been such unqualified acceptance of the Imperial model.'
>After Professor Gupta applied for a readership, the panel granted it to her by six votes to two, but Sir Roy is said to have suggested she was being assisted by her head of department and accused her of having a relationship with him, an assertion he later admitted was false.
>He made a full apology to Professor Gupta, who was married, nine months later and paid her a settlement which she donated to charity, but he was suspended by the university. He later returned and was edged out by his own colleagues.
Academia is full of shit like this by the way, I'm sure we've all seen it first hand too, the bullshit politics.
