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Are public sector workers paid 43 per cent more than those in the private sector, as the think tank Policy Exchange claimed this week? If all over 55-year-olds were given cholesterol and blood pres...sure-lowering drugs - as researchers recently suggested - how many people would take those drugs unnecessarily? Jonah Lehrer on the "decline effect", the disturbing finding that many scientific results appear to fade over time. Kelly Greenhill from Tufts and Harvard universities tries to calculate the civilian death toll in Iraq since the 2003 invasion. Is modern science too complicated to be left to the scientists? Darrel Ince on a scandal in academia. And we try to patch things up with poor old Fireman Dibble.
Are public sector workers paid 43 per cent more than those in the private sector, as the think tank Policy Exchange claimed this week? If all over 55-year-olds were given cholesterol and blood pres...sure-lowering drugs - as researchers recently suggested - how many people would take those drugs unnecessarily? Jonah Lehrer on the "decline effect", the disturbing finding that many scientific results appear to fade over time. Kelly Greenhill from Tufts and Harvard universities tries to calculate the civilian death toll in Iraq since the 2003 invasion. Is modern science too complicated to be left to the scientists? Darrel Ince on a scandal in academia. And we try to patch things up with poor old Fireman Dibble.
| Series: | More or less |
|---|---|
| Episode | 7 |
| First transmission date: | 2011-05-13 |
| Original broadcast channel: | BBC Radio 4 |
| Published: | 2011 |
| Rights Statement: | Rights owned or controlled by The Open University |
| Restrictions on use: | This material can be used in accordance with The Open University conditions of use. A link to the conditions can be found at the bottom of all OU Digital Archive web pages. |
| Duration: | 00:28:00 |
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| Producer: | Richard, Knight |
| Presenter: | Tim Harford |
| Contributors: | Antoine Bozio; Kelly Greenhill; Tim Harford; Carl Heneghan; D (Darrel) Ince; Jonah Lehrer; Matthew Oakley |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Subject terms: | Economics; Mathematics; Statistics |
| Production number: | PEH02011744/AAA |
| Available to public: | no |
