I believe part of the success of the story (apart from its controversial nature), is its successful marketing of a dubious technique, namely, multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) as a sophisticated, state-of-the-art, and hence must-be-the-best approach to an essentially complicated problem. I personally prefer to call it the Just Get An Average - Sweep Everything Else Under The Carpet (JGAA-SEEUTC) approach. But maybe it'd be more difficult to get the paper published if it was so called.
Tim
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to those allstatters who have read David Nutt's paper in the current Lancet:
I cannot believe that this was peer reviewed.
what to do you think?
Tony Greenfield
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