[dalore]

At the start the only person trying to say it was a gompertz curve was Nobel Prize winner Professor Levitt. Everyone was using the Imperial College model which did say exponential growth and of which the governments around the world used to make policy. So to turn around and say now the models were unfounded is not useful as they were the models that were followed to make huge policy decisions. So it wasn't just people driving clicks, but governments making drastic changes to peoples lives based on these flawed models.

https://unherd.com/thepost/nobel-prize-winning-scientist-the...

[beagle3]

There were quite a few others; it just happens that Michael Levitt is the highest profile person on that list, and essentially the only one to therefore be globally quoted;

But there are iirc ex surgeon-general equivalents in at least Germany and Israel and independents like Karl Deninger who had been saying essentially the same, with data to back themselves up, since March.