Beware the noxious weed that is ‘evidence-based policy’ running rife

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Beware the noxious weed that is ‘evidence-based policy’ running rife

Garden weeds

The early part of 2018, in health policy terms, feels like the calm before the storm. Apart from the minister of health kicking the $10 decrease in GP fees down the road, most of the talk has been (as it usually is at this point in the political cycle) about the gaps and failures attributable to the previous government

Fundamentally, I have only two problems with use of the term “evidence-based policy”. The first problem is the word “based”, and the second is the wor