markg wrote:
I just posted a comparison to other systems by an organisation respected for doing exactly that, the link was even from a Torygraph article. But fair enough. That's precisely how I see your view of it all. Bit like your take on global warming, no amount of evidence will ever sway you.
By the same token I've previously linked to all manner of reports comparing the performance of the NHS to other European healthcare systems, as conducted by respected pan-European organisations with absolutely no axe to grind whatsoever, be that political or commercial, but you've always poo-pooed these in exactly the same way you've done the same in response to objectively hopeless cancer survival rates, quality of care issues, waiting lists and quite appalling scandals. Sorry to say, but I simply cannot be bothered to go through it all again and am busy, so haven't read this link/report because I think it's very likely it's either some cherry picked information and/or you've misinterpreted it to suit your vested interest and arguments?
I really don't want this to sound rude, Mark, even though it probably does; to be clear I like you and would buy you a pint if we ever meet. But just like you think I can never change my mind, as perplexing as that is for me since I do it all the time including here, I think the same of you. So there's no point.
The whole global warming thing is another can of worms that I'm not gonna open again, but to say that I have never
denied it but merely point out that the actual global temperature trends do not, even remotely, follow predictions and it seems common sense to at least question their potential veracity on this basis; there seems to be an awful lot of after-the-fact-lets-make-the-models-fit-actual-data going on, that I see rather a lot of in my profession anyway, when people get their models wrong. To me, this doesn't seem too unreasonable a stance to take, but to others it makes me a beast. Which, to be honest, I eventually tire of such shrill, pseudo-cultish nonsense.
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