Carl Heneghan

Now, in most books or reports, they would actually say, here's a sort of bibliography of the acronyms that we're about to use.

So there may be something that says, here's the nine we're going to use in this paper.

It might make life easier if you can up front say, here's the list of them.

So I think there's some thinking needs to go into this.

And I think there's some style guide of, here's the accepted ones that are okay.

And I like your free or max is the position because then it would sort of limit people to think we're going to use ones and we're not going to use them in a way that confuses everybody.

It's really interesting.

If you go into Oxford and you come down the high street, and I'd use this in talk, there's a blue plaque for Hooke.

And everybody will know Hooke and Boyle's Law from their chemistry.

And Hooke was one of the first fellows of the Royal Society.

and as the first frf fellow of the royal society he was paid to do an experiment every week and then he had to give a public lecture and a priest would often verify that a priest a priest would verify the experiment and verify what had gone on so remember there's no internet there's no newspapers so what you mean to check he wasn't lying yeah so so he'd say i observed this experiment and it was true and in fact and he would write it up but in doing that it was communicating to the public as a public lecture

So once you start to think about your academic writing like that, and you think about the impact he had within them experiments, I mean, once a week, once a year for most people would be too much.

But the idea that you are actually taking research and communicating to a wider audience is an important job of academia.

And it's not just doing experiments.

It's trying to communicate them, and particularly to the public.

If you do that well and learn them skills, I think you could revolutionise some of this we read, but it's not easy.

This must be quite a difficult time for politicians because we're moving into a new era where there's an army of nerds emerging who will fact-check what people say, won't they?

There was an article, wasn't there, recently, the news article, which was NHS becomes political football as electioneering kicks off.

And I think the era of healthcare being used politically has to come to an end.

Because it's not just as simple as people saying, we're going to have X thousand more doctors, we're going to do more screening, we're going to do this.