matt_black

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I'm a chemist by training and a management consultant by profession. I've worked for everything from the oil industry to the NHS.

I have a particular aversion to obvious answers as they are too often both wrong and dangerous. As a result I seem to spend too much of my life arguing about government policy.

In my spare time I conduct evil experiments on my identical twins to differentiate nature and nurture.

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52 Answers

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31	Are old car models more reliable than new ones?
25	Has most peer-reviewed research on homeopathy given positive results?
18	Is diet soda less healthful than regular soda?
15	Is drinking raw milk more dangerous than drinking pasteurized milk?
14	Does wearing a bicycle helmet make the cyclist safer?

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+20	Can smartphone Apps detect EMF?
+5	Are restrictions on the supply of alcohol effective at limiting the harm caused by or even the amount of alcohol consumed?
-2	Is the US Newborn Mortality Rate higher than 40 Countries?
+10	Is routine screening for breast cancer for asymptomatic women worthwhile?

34 Questions

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24	Does a tidy desk make you more productive than a messy one?
18	Do old master musical instruments sound better than their modern equivalents in blind trials?
16	Is the world warmer now than during the Medieval Warm Period?
14	Are restrictions on the supply of alcohol effective at limiting the harm caused by or even the amount of alcohol consumed?
10	Does abstinence-only sex education reduce the frequency of teenage sex or the rate of teenage pregnancy?

92 Tags

52 electromagnetism × 7	28 medical-science × 16
42 cars × 6	25 homeopathy
41 nutrition × 8	22 economics × 6
32 safety × 11	20 physics × 2
31 consumer-products	17 chemistry × 7