Could science sway the next UK election? Anthony Bradshaw/Getty
In the UK’s snap election campaign, will voters be fed up of experts? Or will the claims and counterclaims of the EU referendum and previous polls make the general public search for the balance of evidence?
The trouble with evidence is that you can find any old scrap of it to support a given point of view. Anyone who has scrolled through their Facebook feed will know that two people of different political persuasions can find evidence to support their world view.
But government has a duty to consider the…
