| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Measles outbreak in Hounslow | |
| Posted by: | Thomas Barry | |
| Date/Time: | 17/02/15 16:38:00 |
| "So why should we be surprised when such attitudes rub off on the electorate?." The last government was spot on on climate change. Not so much on drugs, but again the fear is what the press will do to evidence based policies. They also set up the UK Statistics Authority which is supposed to stop politicians routinely misusing statistical evidence (check their website out, it's full of letters starting 'Dear Iain Duncan Smith'). As we've seen in the last five years it turns out to be much easier to make something up that plays well in the Daily Mail than to actually look at the evidence and come up with something that works with it. This is the fault of the media's conviction that it's entitled to bend our reality for us as much as the spineless politicians who won't call them out on it. |