Thursday, 12 March 2009

Evidence based medicine

The Left finds something else to tax. Others will fisk this statist outrage far better than I, but I was struck most by this statement:

Dr David Walker, a GP in Lanarkshire, said many people eat their entire daily calorie requirement in chocolate, on top of their normal meals.

"Many" is meaningless. Is it ten? A thousand? One percent of the population? He wants to impose a nationwide tax because he has a feeling that 'many' people are stuffing their faces with chocolate. Personally, I prefer an independent study with verifiable results. Unusually for the BBC, they allowed a single dissenting voice, though they were at pains to point out her industry connection, twice. When a source is favoured by the BBC, they are simply labelled "an expert".

Anyway, as another commenter said - "there goes the womens vote!".

1 comment:

North Northwester said...

Fine post. As The FIlthy Smoker says over here:
http://devilskitchen.me.uk/2009/06/its-way-she-tells-em.html

Smoking just one cigarette, even with the window open, creates a greater concentration of second-hand smoke than a whole evening's smoking in a pub or a bar."
Really? That sounds rather, erm, implausible. Is there any evidence for this, or is it a case of - as The Daily Mash might put it:
"What study? Fuck you, that's what study."


But Dr David Walker, a GP in Lanarkshire, is actually correct on this one, FC.

You see, many satanic attacks are committed by witched who eat too much chocolate.

Everybody knows THAT one.Do try to keep up.