Sunday 1 November 2009

Blog post of the whatever

This fantastic gem from the Heresiarch includes a term that must pass into the English language immediately and forthwith:

"policy-based evidence making"

4 comments:

Mark Wadsworth said...

That passed into the language a few minutes after Labour started spouting on about "evidence based policy".

Mark Wadsworth said...

WV: oboatom

Anonymous said...

In research terms, I take this to mean "make the evidence up to fit whatever crackpot theory I want proved". Amongst other victims, I daresay the late Sally Clark would have something to say... As a University lecturer who has moved on to other things, any undergraduate who produced this sort of tosh would be lucky if I only threw it at the bin rather than them! Every time I think that Liebour have plumbed the depths, they start to dig!

Mitch said...

surely Blair defined this years ago?