Aaron Brown – statistician, professor and author of Wrong Number – talks to spiked’s Fraser Myers about the statistical disinformation that dominates public life. Aaron explains why climate change has been good for us (so far), why DOGE’s foreign-aid cuts did not cost millions of lives, and why public-health experts are so ill-equipped to lecture us on how to live.
How to lie with statistics
Aaron Brown on how fake numbers and junk science warp debate on climate, social media and public health.
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