Our much-unloved Health Secretary is arguing with Stephen Hawking over matters of fact and scientific evidence.
Which of them is more likely to be telling the truth?
"In his initial article which provoked the debate, Hawking criticised Hunt’s decision to establish a seven-day NHS, claiming that the Health Secretary “cherry-picked” research to support his arguments, whilst flatly ignoring contradictory evidence."
"Attacking Hawking’s statement, Hunt claimed that the physicist has no “evidence at all” to back up his arguments, claiming that since the Tories came to power in 2010, the amount of people seeking private health insurance has fallen by 9.4%.
But now, Hawking has clinically deconstructed the ailing Health Secretary."
http://evolvepolitics.com/stephen-h...ly-deconstructing-the-health-secretarys-lies/
I'm thinking of taking up tennis. Should I challenge Serena Williams and Andy Murray, and expect to win? Is Jeremy a right hunt?
"Now Prof Hawking has issued a rebuttal, writing in the Guardian that Mr Hunt’s article admits he based his findings on only one paper – the Fremantle study published in the British Medical Journal in 2015 – which he said was “disputed”.
He pointed out that the author of the study, Professor Nick Fremantle, had himself explicitly warned that “to assume these excess deaths are avoidable would be rash and misleading”."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...secretary-theoretical-physicist-a7912041.html
"Hunt misquoted me, saying that I claimed the government wants a US-style insurance system. What I said was that the direction is towards a US-style insurance system, run by private companies. The increasing involvement of private health companies in the NHS is evidence for this."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/25/jeremy-hunt-attack-nhs-stephen-hawking-crisis
Which of them is more likely to be telling the truth?
"In his initial article which provoked the debate, Hawking criticised Hunt’s decision to establish a seven-day NHS, claiming that the Health Secretary “cherry-picked” research to support his arguments, whilst flatly ignoring contradictory evidence."
"Attacking Hawking’s statement, Hunt claimed that the physicist has no “evidence at all” to back up his arguments, claiming that since the Tories came to power in 2010, the amount of people seeking private health insurance has fallen by 9.4%.
But now, Hawking has clinically deconstructed the ailing Health Secretary."
http://evolvepolitics.com/stephen-h...ly-deconstructing-the-health-secretarys-lies/
I'm thinking of taking up tennis. Should I challenge Serena Williams and Andy Murray, and expect to win? Is Jeremy a right hunt?
"Now Prof Hawking has issued a rebuttal, writing in the Guardian that Mr Hunt’s article admits he based his findings on only one paper – the Fremantle study published in the British Medical Journal in 2015 – which he said was “disputed”.
He pointed out that the author of the study, Professor Nick Fremantle, had himself explicitly warned that “to assume these excess deaths are avoidable would be rash and misleading”."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...secretary-theoretical-physicist-a7912041.html
"Hunt misquoted me, saying that I claimed the government wants a US-style insurance system. What I said was that the direction is towards a US-style insurance system, run by private companies. The increasing involvement of private health companies in the NHS is evidence for this."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/25/jeremy-hunt-attack-nhs-stephen-hawking-crisis
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