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April 24, 2012

Policy and Values

A while back in the article “Science, Values and Democracy” I argued that science alone cannot determine policy and that values and politics play an integral part of the decision making process.  If you don’t want to take my word for it, here is an article by psychiatry profess

Crunch Cholesterol: Safe, Natural Secrets For High Cholesterol

or Keith Humphreys talking about values in health policy:

http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/why-there-is-thank-goodness-no-such-thing-as-evidence-based-health-policy/

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