Comment on Sir Paul Nurse on the science-society relationship by tempterrain

Patients are free to seek and ignore whatever opinions and advice they choose. Sir Paul Nurse isn’t saying otherwise.
He himself could have shopped around for the sort of advice he may well have preferred to hear. The Lindzens or the Judith Currys of the heart specialist world would have advised either that there was no problem, or it was all just too hard to decide in a situation of deep uncertainty.
Instead he chose to act. Of course,if he’d sucessfully chosen to take a big risk, either he or the UK’s NHS would have now been financially better off!
There’s not much wrong with this analogy.