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Welcome to Skeptical Voter!

About Skeptical Voter [Edit]

This is the Skeptical Voter Wiki site, which we hope will become a useful resource for tracking MPs and candidates for their level of commitment to evidence-based policy-making.

View parliamentary candidate responses to our survey:

Category:Candidate Survey Response

Skeptical Voters believe that evidence should be at the centre of all public policy making. This site intends to identify which parliamentary candidates embrace the use of evidence as a means to inform their decisions and which prefer to obfuscate, ignore or suppress the evidence for political convenience.

Featured Politician[Edit]

Evan Harris is the Liberal Democrat MP for Oxford West & Abingdon. Dr Harris has been the Liberal Democrat spokesman on science since 2005 and has sat on the Science and Technology Select Committee since 2003. Harris describes his parliamentary stance as "an MP who campaigns for science, evidence-based policy and free speech". Harris succeeded in bringing about the abolition of the offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel in 2008...

More Profiles of Politicians[Edit]

    • Jeffrey Donaldson (MP) - Feared embryo research would produce "cloned adults or minotaurs."
    • Paul Flynn (MP) - Proposed a motion, protesting the uncritical promotion of 'miracle cures' in the media.
    • Rachel Joyce (Candidate) - Maintains a blog with the subtitle "Evidence-based, Common Sense Politics"
    • Lembit Öpik (MP) - Believes that the onus is less on homeopathy to prove that it works, but more on homeopathy's detractors to prove it does not work.
    • Iris Robinson (MP) - Believes the government "has the responsibility to uphold God's laws"
    • Graham Stringer (MP) - Proposed a motion warning against creationism in schools, and a motion against NHS support for unproven alternative therapies.
    • David Tredinnick (MP) - Claimed expenses for purchasing software that linked healthcare to the movements of the planets.
    • David Wilshire (MP) - Believes there is no factual evidence to support the theory of anthropogenic global warming.

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