Jack Stilgoe
Senior Researcher
Jack Stilgoe works on science and technology projects and specialises in issues of science, society and public engagement.
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- If you go down to the polls today... I never did understand the second line, "you're sure of big surprise." If I'm sure about it, how big a surprise can it be? Must be something to do with probabilities and outcomes. I digress. The only poll that matters today is the one stuck to the wall behind me. The Demos sweepstake, predicting size of majority and voter turnout, is now closed. Turnout ranges from 52-71%. And the size of the labour majority goes from a nano-18 to a mega-126. Though not wishing to name names, the 52% guess... from : jackstilgoe 5th May 2005
- Trust me, I'm the head of immunisation at the Department of Health Vaccines are an interesting condensation point for debates about science, the public good, personal freedom and choice. As the UK government found a few years back with the MMR vaccine, you get in trouble if you are on the one hand telling people to choose everything to do with their healthcare and on the other coercing them into vaccination for the public good. The evidence, as we found out, won't win arguments that messy. There's a nice book co-authored by Demos friend Melissa Leach that... from : jackstilgoe 10th March 2008