Transparency And Detail Are Everything In Science.

Just Just Because There Are Flaws In Aircraft Design That Doesn't Mean Flying Carpets Exist.

If I Was Writing A Lifestyle Book It Would Have The Same Advice On Every Page, And You’d Know It All Already. Eat Lots Of Fruit And Vegetables, And Live Your Whole Life In Every Way As Well As You Can: Exercise Regularly As Part Of Your Daily Routine, Avoid Obesity, Don’t Drink Too Much, Don’t Smoke, And Don’t Get Distracted From The Real, Basic, Simple Causes Of Ill Health. But As We Will See, Even These Things Are Hard To Do On Your Own, And In Reality Require Wholesale Social And Political Changes.

Data Is The Fabric Of The Modern World: Just Like We Walk Down Pavements, So We Trace Routes Through Data, And Build Knowledge And Products Out Of It.

In The Past, [medicalization]has Been Portrayed As Something That Doctors Inflict On A Passive And Un-suspecting World - An Expansion Of The Medical Empire. But In Reality, It Seems That These Reductionist Bio-medical Stories Can Appeal To Us All, Because Complex Problems Often Have Depressingly-complex Causes, And The Solutions Can Be Taxing, And Unsatisfactory.

Amazing Things Happen When You Pull Individual Pieces Of Information Together Into Larger Linked Datasets: Meaning Emerges, As You Produce Facts From Figures.