Showing posts with label evidence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label evidence. Show all posts
Tuesday, 2 April 2019

Evidence-free policy-making is the norm

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The main point of Chapman's article is that no adequate process of evaluation has been put in place for this policy. This quotation, l...
Saturday, 1 September 2018

The politics of fudge and muddle (centrist politics and the pretence of evidence-based policy)

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Tony Blair and his acolytes used the idea of political triangulation to create what they dubbed the "third way". This always broug...
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Thursday, 19 October 2017

Piketty's rickety evidence...

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Thomas Piketty became the go to anti-capitalist economist. Every trendy progressive pundit leapt onto his arguments about the inevitability ...
Saturday, 30 July 2016

"It's better for health if everyone loses a pound or two" - introducing Bradford's evidence free obesity strategy

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**** The presentation from Bradford's public health officers began with an observation that, while obesity is a problem there was ver...
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Saturday, 18 June 2016

Why we don't need an Evidence Information Service (but do need better access to evidence)

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**** Whenever I think about evidence-based policy making and the use of data by government, my mind turns to an article by Dr Vince-Wayne ...
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Tuesday, 17 November 2015

Misusing the idea of 'evidence' - the case of alcohol policy

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**** It's Alcohol Awareness Week when all the fussbuckets issue tutting press releases lecturing ordinary folk about how they're dri...
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Sunday, 19 July 2015

There is no evidence - none at all - to justify this lastest sugar 'target'

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Except, of course, that reducing the amount of sugar might be consequential on reducing total calorific intake. More to the point this sel...
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Wednesday, 29 January 2014

Ideology, ideology, ideology!

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At first the term "ideology" referred to the study of ideas and their origins. Over time this has transmogrified into our mode...
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Monday, 16 December 2013

Passive smoking and lung cancer.

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One or two of you may have missed the headline news about passive smoking : The article describes a large prospective study that "...
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Tuesday, 12 November 2013

Do you believe in Santa Claus? More on the case for HS2

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**** In the remake of Miracle on 34th Street (the slightly schmaltzier version of the classic movie) a wave of people across New York - i...
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Sunday, 4 August 2013

Tim Farron wants expensive fuel to go with the expensive food....

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**** You have to admire the populism of Tim Farron , president of the Liberal Democrats: Mr Farron told The Sunday Telegraph: “I am afr...
Monday, 22 July 2013

That minimum pricing evidence...or should I say lack of evidence?

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**** The 'scientific' argument (as opposed to the New Puritan or prohibitionist arguments) for minimum pricing of alcohol was base...
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Monday, 18 February 2013

Dear doctors, if you're going to be fussbuckets can you at least get the facts right

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**** The media is all afroth with the latest press release from "The Doctors" about us getting a little chubby. This is accompan...
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Tuesday, 21 August 2012

"International evidence proves..." ....that you're probably making it up!

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**** How often do we here this or one of its variants: "European research shows..." or "Evidence from Australia indicates.....
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Sunday, 19 February 2012

Doubt and the problem of planning - a thought on conservatism

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In recent times I’ve tried to explain to people that conservatism isn’t some form of brash, know-all ideological fix for mankind’s proble...
Thursday, 17 November 2011

When will journalists start looking at the evidence?

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**** Every now and then a ray of hope breaks through the dour, New Puritan gloom. For a fleeting moment I feel a little progress toward...
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