written by Martin on Feb 12, 2011
Tory government misleads public on health care research
Mr Cameron is selling you lies
Ben Goldacre, again, in today’s Guardian, methodically demonstrates how the Tories are deliberately misleading people on the reasons for cuts in health care spending, by cherry-picking the research that supports their policies, while ignoring the overwhelming evidence that refutes them.
“Here is what politicians apparently cannot understand: it’s absolutely fine to make policy based on ideology, whim, faith, principles, and all the other things we are used to. It’s also fine for evidence to be mixed. And it’s absolutely fine if your reforms aren’t supported by existing evidence: you just shouldn’t claim that they are.”