On Friday 26th September, Defra changed the “Bovine TB strategy review update” but simply made things worse by adding another layer of confusion. An error was reported as “a revision to a line of code”. In the document itself, the Continue reading Godfray Review 2025: Defra Revision? Correction? Or just further scientific howlers?→| The Badger Crowd – standing up for badgers
A correction to the statistical analysis of the Randomized Badger Control Trial, following a mistake in a recent government report (2025 Godfray Report). The corrected analysis, reported in this preprint, confirms that badger culling is ineffective in the control of tuberculosis in cattle, using the statistical model proposed in the Godfray report.| figshare
Panel Chair: Professor Sir Charles Godfray The long-awaited ‘Godfray’ report, a review of scientific evidence since 2018 concerning bovine TB in cattle, was published on 4th September. …| The Badger Crowd - standing up for badgers
Professor Paul Torgerson The peer-reviewer of the new scientific paper, Torgerson et al 2025, published on June 11th is the Director of Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland (BIOSS). The paper is…| The Badger Crowd - standing up for badgers
In March 2022 the Chief Veterinary Officer (CVO) Christine Middlemiss & Chief Scientific Advisor (CSA) Gideon Henderson joined Defra Media Centre in attacking a peer-reviewed, freshly published…| The Badger Crowd - standing up for badgers
Government to review the last six years of bTB science for its ‘refreshed’ bovine TB strategy On 30th January 2025, Defra issued Terms of Reference (here) for the ‘comprehensive new bov…| The Badger Crowd - standing up for badgers
On Thursday 18th July, as Keir Starmer visited Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, the Oxfordshire Badger Group (OBG) presented a petition, with over 50,000 signatures to Oxford University School …| The Badger Crowd - standing up for badgers
