"Since publication of Imperial’s microsimulation model, those of us with a professional and personal interest in software development have studied the code on which policymakers based their fateful decision to mothball our multi-trillion pound economy and plunge millions of people into poverty and hardship," Richards and Boudnik wrote.
"And we were profoundly disturbed at what we discovered."
They found the model "to be totally unreliable."
The authors noted that when other scientists tried to replicate the findings using the same model, they failed.
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