The public has this year become more literate about disease control. It is time for better scrutiny of the UK badger culling strategy.
… that originate from the RBCT model. Trends Presented by a small cabal of … is no longer acceptable, if it ever was. But trends to replace proper survey and monitoring …
The government / NFU badger culling policy is based on a single study, the Randomised Badger Culling Trials (RBCT), which found that area-wide badger killing reduced TB 'breakdowns' in cattle herds. But a robust reanalysis of the RBCT data reveals that culling is entirely ineffective, writes Tom Langton. The only scientifically valid conclusion is that culling badgers has no effect on TB in cattle. Defra and Natural England must think again!
Lies, damned lies and twisted statistics - fake science set to kill 100,000 English badgers Tom Langton | 13th April 2017 News Badgers Science Health Farming Politics UK England …
Ecologist Tom Langton continues to make the case that the only way to eradicate bovine TB is through proper testing and not through badger culling which simply doesn't work
Bovine TB Part II: rotten data, dodgy science, bad politics. Tom Langton | 18th May 2016 Activism Badger Culling Bovine TB Wildlife NFU badger cull.jpg Ecologist Tom Langton continues to make the …
If we are ever to bring bovine TB under control in Britain's cattle herd, we must begin with the main disease reservoir, writes Tom Langton: the cattle themselves. The insistence on culling badgers has little to do with disease control, and everything to do with the short term economics of the beef and dairy industries, unwilling to sacrifice an iota of production in the interests of a real solution.
… number crunching it was plain to see the trends. Basically, in two of the control areas …
Badger culling and mass badger vaccination are unsafe and costly practices that interfere with protected species.
Badger meddling Tom Langton | 5th November 2019 News Badger Cull Science & Systems TB Biodiversity Collapse badger-feature-full-width.jpg Badger culling and mass badger vaccination are unsafe and …