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Do Randomised Trials of Heroin Addicts Work?
How do we make politics more scientific? Absolutely, we should. You can do randomised trials if things like what sentence you give in criminal justice,. as easily as you can do a randomised trial of a pill. But the problem is that you're always going to have to compete with politicians who will talk in terms of certainty. And it's really hard for science to compete with that. It's got to find something worse than this fantasy politician willing to stand up and say: I don't know which is the best educational intervention to reduce teenage pregnancies. We'd rather all our children got a good education instead of some of them getting a bad one. That's a weird way of looking
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