...and now a demonstration of what happens to government paid 'experts' when they don't produce the 'evidence' the government wants...
BBC's home editor Mark Easton comments on
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a collision between science and politics
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included is the letter from Alan Johnson, Home Secretary, which asserts to Professor Nutt that...
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It is important that the government's messages on drugs are clear and that as an advisor you do nothing to undermine public understanding of them...
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i cannot have public confusion between scientific advice and policy...
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...so just like the government's messages on everything really. Why let facts get in the way of yet another piece of policy based 'evidence' about
any issue the government wants to legislate on, after all we can't have people being confused with the truth now can we...
Good for Professor Nutt showing that he actually has a pair... unlike Mr.Balls' pet minion the BadMan. Sad to see however that THIS issue about recreational drugs has raised more temperatures in the media about scientific rigor & government policy making, than their slapdash statistical attack on Home Ed has... meh!
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devaluing and distorting evidence
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indeedy they do!