Publication: Randomised Badger Culling Trial—no effects of widespread badger culling on tuberculosis in cattle: comment on Mills, Woodroffe and Donnelly (2024a, 2024b)
Randomised Badger Culling Trial—no effects of widespread badger culling on tuberculosis in cattle: comment on Mills, Woodroffe and Donnelly (2024a, 2024b)
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Torgerson, P. R., Hartnack, S., Rasmussen, P., Lewis, F. I., O’Donnell, P., & Langton, T. E. S. (2025). Randomised Badger Culling Trial—no effects of widespread badger culling on tuberculosis in cattle: comment on Mills, Woodroffe and Donnelly (2024a, 2024b). Royal Society Open Science, 12(6), 241609. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.241609
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Substantial problems remain with the Mills et al. (Mills CL, Woodroffe R, Donnelly CA. 2024 R. Soc. Open Sci. 11, 240385. (doi:10.1098/rsos.240385) and Mills CL, Woodroffe R, Donnelly CA. 2024 R. Soc. Open Sci. 11, 240386. (doi:10.1098/rsos.240386)) re-evaluations of the Randomised Badger Culling Trial (RBCT) data. These include: (i) analysis of counts rather than rates; (ii) overfitting; (iii) modelling of ‘confirmed’ herd breakdowns rather than total herd breakdowns; and (iv) errors in the Bayesian analysis of the data. More plausib
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- Torgerson, Paul R
- Hartnack, Sonja
- Rasmussen, Philip
- Lewis, Fraser I
- O’Donnell, Peter
- Langton, Thomas E S
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Torgerson, P. R., Hartnack, S., Rasmussen, P., Lewis, F. I., O’Donnell, P., & Langton, T. E. S. (2025). Randomised Badger Culling Trial—no effects of widespread badger culling on tuberculosis in cattle: comment on Mills, Woodroffe and Donnelly (2024a, 2024b). Royal Society Open Science, 12(6), 241609. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.241609
