RE: Happy Days26 Mar 2021 19:41
Maneater
You can keep your Virolens.
They lied about the results and they lied about having customers, described by the academics they were falsely claiming to be collaborating with as 'morally unacceptable'.
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In its initial press release, the company said, “the Virolens® system has a 99.8% sensitivity and 96.7% specificity, based on the results of an internal in vitro validation study, designed by the University of Bristol, demonstrating an exciting proof of concept”.
*** But academics at Bristol university said they were not involved in any study that tested the sensitivity and specificity of the tests and complained about the wording of the release. Bristol university virologist David Matthews only provided samples of the Covid-19 virus to the company and was not in any way involved in its validation, he said.
*** Jon Deeks, professor of biostatistics at the University of Birmingham, said, “we are in a pandemic, people are dying from the disease, and a company decides that it is reasonable to mislead us all to make their test look like the best thing available”, referring to the claims being made for the test’s accuracy. “Legally, they can probably get away with this, but there cannot be any consideration that this is morally acceptable.”
Pathetic responses too:
“If we made a slight, slight miswording of [our release], I apologise for everybody, but fundamentally, we’re trying to do a good thing for humanity as quickly as possible,” Mr Compton told the Financial Times.
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'Slight, slight, miswording ? Utter b.u.l.l.s.h.i.t. would be a more fitting description.
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