tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712706263695364665.post9205225748247178343..comments2023-09-28T09:58:52.368+00:00Comments on Critical Faculty Dojo: UK DoH advises against any AlcoholCFD Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14176957304124700156noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712706263695364665.post-73122511707329513052007-05-28T11:50:00.000+00:002007-05-28T11:50:00.000+00:00I would say, yes, like simple idiots, in the origi...I would say, yes, like simple idiots, in the original sense. <BR/><BR/>If not like idiots then, like small children. Having the message ‘simplified’ so it isn’t quite true, but ‘for our own good’.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712706263695364665.post-33895803445387159582007-05-27T08:47:00.000+00:002007-05-27T08:47:00.000+00:00"So then, this looks rather like another example o..."So then, this looks rather like another example of the nanny state treating us as if we are all idiots..."<BR/>Wrong diagnosis. This is public health advice but it is bad public health advice, because it is spun. We are being advised to believe something for our own good, a meme "alcohol in pregnancy is bad". But it undermines the authority of scientific medicine to issue this unsupported assertion. If evidence is not at the heart of health advice, it's just the opinion of a technocrat. <BR/>The worrying thing is that the people who are putting this stuff out must be "idiots" to go along with it. Of course some of them value belief over knowledge...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com