Tag: VMBs
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Junk science and booze tax – a study in spin
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Andrew Orlowski
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“Let’s find out what everybody is doing, and stop them doing it” – A P Herbert Putting the price of alcohol up to a minimum of 40p a unit would keep 41,000 people a year out of hospital, save the NHS £116m a year, and avoid 12,400 cases of unemployment, a report from Sheffield University…
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The dumb, dumb world of Malcolm Gladwell
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Andrew Orlowski
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Have you ever had the nagging sense that there’s something not quite right with the adulation that follows Malcolm Gladwell – the author of Tipping Point? But you couldn’t quite put your finger on it? We’re here to help, dear reader. Gladwell gave two vanity “performances” in the West End – prompting fevered adulation from…
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Management consultants on the march, powered by Junk Science
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Andrew Orlowski
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