The Patrick Vallance Interview
The Life Scientific
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Is There a Difference Between Evidence Base Policy and Policy Based Evidence?
I think all of us felt times when there was enormous pressure, and you just felt, am i doing a good job? Am i able to get the evidence through clearly enough, or not? And i think that's a normal feeling and a normal reaction. We were trying to d tell people er as we saw it, and as the experts were helping us, understand it what the situation was, and therefore what the options might be. I guess this is a distinction between evidence base policy and policy based evidence. These dashes you don't want to do exactly, am you? You don't strike me, patrick, as the kind of person who would flounce off during an important
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