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July 2026: Government declines to widen the Thirlwall terms of reference (16 July) · new 100-page insulin report to the CCRC challenging the trial evidence (9 July) · Thirlwall report still expected no earlier than September · inquests relisted to 2027 · Shoo Lee Panel: no medical evidence of deliberate harm.

Lucy Letby Facts

Conflict-map · Post-conviction medical experts

Prof. Ben Goldacre

Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine, Oxford

Evidence-based medicineScientific literature2Expert/professional

Main contribution

Author of Bad Science and Bad Pharma. Framework for identifying unreliable medical claims applied to the Letby evidence.

Key claim

The Crown's medical case displays features the Bad Science framework would flag as unreliable.

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Prof. Ben Goldacre — biography

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