Mark Henderson
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32 appearances
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1 series
first heard Aug 2012
last heard Aug 2012
Mark Henderson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So you've got evidence shopping.
This is where evidence perhaps has been considered in the round, but the minister goes in and picks out the bit that his policy looks good in, doesn't make the policy's bum look big.
There's fixing the evidence.
That's where you don't like the evidence that you're getting, so you change the people you're getting the evidence from.
There's clairvoyant evidence, which is best summed up by an advisor to Patricia Hewitt, who told a newspaper some time ago when she was health secretary, that home births are safe and we will commission research to show that they are safe.
Really a case of putting the cart before the horse.
There's also a secret evidence.
Damien Green, the immigration minister, went to the House of Commons to claim that there was no queuing crisis at Heathrow Airport borders, using statistics that had not been published, so nobody could challenge them.
And then finally, you've got mishandling the evidence.
That's when there is rather good evidence about one thing that's then used to justify something completely different.
Just because the research shows one thing in one circumstance...
doesn't necessarily mean it's going to be applicable to a different but related policy.
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