Quick blast on google shows those claims to be BS.
For example. Predicting that upto 150K people could die. What he actually said:
Quote:
Mad Cow paper:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11786878
From abstract:
“Extending the analysis to consider absolute risk, we estimate the 95% confidence interval for future vCJD mortality to be 50 to 50,000 human deaths considering exposure to bovine BSE alone, with the upper bound increasing to 150,000 once we include exposure from the worst-case ovine BSE scenario examined.”
On BSE, he predicted 50 to 50,000 deaths *by 2080*. His lower bound was 40 deaths and his upper bound was ~7,000 deaths for cumulative deaths by 2020.
He emphasised that the worst-case scenarios were far less likely than other scenarios and the paper suggests that the best estimate is 100 deaths to 1,000 deaths. See:
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature709/ and
https://www.nature.com/news/2002/020...s020107-7.html
All those statements are from your horribly biased right wing editorial toilet paper are pure shock jock journalist sensationalism, where they take the biggest number mentioned and simply ignore all the context around it.
Also, he was wrong about C19 because he only predicted 7-20K deaths if we went into lockdown, so he massively underestimated that.