Comments on: A get out of jail free card http://timworstall.com/2008/10/30/a-get-out-of-jail-free-card/ It is all obvious or trivial except... Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:09:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: TimT http://timworstall.com/2008/10/30/a-get-out-of-jail-free-card/comment-page-1/#comment-23271 TimT Fri, 31 Oct 2008 08:23:08 +0000 http://timworstall.com/?p=4758#comment-23271 NICE? That was the name of the fascist organisation C S Lewis invented in his book 'That Hideous Strength' - it's a parody of the bureaucratic structures Lewis would have encountered in wartime and postwar Britain. As Onslow would say, "Oh, <i>nice!</i>' NICE? That was the name of the fascist organisation C S Lewis invented in his book ‘That Hideous Strength’ – it’s a parody of the bureaucratic structures Lewis would have encountered in wartime and postwar Britain.

As Onslow would say, “Oh, nice!‘

]]> By: Umbongo http://timworstall.com/2008/10/30/a-get-out-of-jail-free-card/comment-page-1/#comment-23257 Umbongo Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:20:01 +0000 http://timworstall.com/?p=4758#comment-23257 In refusing to disclose the basis of its model, NICE is only following the lead given by the <a href="http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=3215" rel="nofollow">warmists</a>. In refusing to disclose the basis of its model, NICE is only following the lead given by the warmists.

]]> By: Kay Tie http://timworstall.com/2008/10/30/a-get-out-of-jail-free-card/comment-page-1/#comment-23255 Kay Tie Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:44:14 +0000 http://timworstall.com/?p=4758#comment-23255 "I can’t see the harm for them doing so in this case." I can see the harm to NICE: they don't want the great unwashed pawing at their spreadsheets and spotting errors (there's always an error in a spreadsheet). “I can’t see the harm for them doing so in this case.”

I can see the harm to NICE: they don’t want the great unwashed pawing at their spreadsheets and spotting errors (there’s always an error in a spreadsheet).

]]> By: john b http://timworstall.com/2008/10/30/a-get-out-of-jail-free-card/comment-page-1/#comment-23250 john b Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:45:24 +0000 http://timworstall.com/?p=4758#comment-23250 s/legislation/litigation s/legislation/litigation

]]> By: john b http://timworstall.com/2008/10/30/a-get-out-of-jail-free-card/comment-page-1/#comment-23249 john b Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:45:07 +0000 http://timworstall.com/?p=4758#comment-23249 The Telegraph hack responsible for that piece has been given some good spin by the drug companies - note that in the lede it pretends the legislation was brought by patient charities, and it's only in the final paragraphs where it admit that it's actually all about Pfizer and Esai. Bizarre move from NICE though. All non-classified non-personal government data should be available to anyone and everyone who asks for it - we're paying for it, after all - and I can't see the harm for them doing so in this case. The Telegraph hack responsible for that piece has been given some good spin by the drug companies – note that in the lede it pretends the legislation was brought by patient charities, and it’s only in the final paragraphs where it admit that it’s actually all about Pfizer and Esai.

Bizarre move from NICE though. All non-classified non-personal government data should be available to anyone and everyone who asks for it – we’re paying for it, after all – and I can’t see the harm for them doing so in this case.

]]> By: JuliaM http://timworstall.com/2008/10/30/a-get-out-of-jail-free-card/comment-page-1/#comment-23244 JuliaM Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:18:22 +0000 http://timworstall.com/?p=4758#comment-23244 <i>"...why not take it from the bureaucrats?"</i> It might concentrate minds a little better next time this comes up.. :) “…why not take it from the bureaucrats?”

It might concentrate minds a little better next time this comes up.. :)

]]> By: Kay Tie http://timworstall.com/2008/10/30/a-get-out-of-jail-free-card/comment-page-1/#comment-23238 Kay Tie Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:55:44 +0000 http://timworstall.com/?p=4758#comment-23238 I'm surprised NICE doesn't have to pay all the costs. I’m surprised NICE doesn’t have to pay all the costs.

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