About Skeptical Voter [Edit]
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| 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.
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.
View Parliamentary candidate responses to our 2010 survey.
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Featured Politician[Edit]
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| Julian Huppert is the Liberal Democrat MP for Cambridge. He previously worked as a research scientist looking at the structures of DNA. In Parliament he has campaigned for evidence-based policy and is a member of the Home Affairs Select Committee. Responding to the 2010 Skeptical Voter Questionnaire he stated that there was "not a jot of evidence" for homeopathy.
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More Profiles of Politicians[Edit]
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- 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.
- Evan Harris (former MP) - Described himself as campaigning "for science, evidence-based policy and free speech".
- 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.
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