Lying awake worrying about asteroids

Medical research in the UK is gripped by an anti-intellectual winter

1 Department of Primary Care and Social Medicine, Imperial College, London, UK.
2 Evidence for Population Health Unit, School of Epidemiology and Health Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
3 Department of General Practice, Division of Community Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

Correspondence:

1. UK Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS) Group. Effect of intensive blood-glucose control with metformin on complications in overweight patients with type 2 diabetes (UKPDS 34). Lancet 1998; 352: 854-865.
2. UK Prospective Diabetes Study Group. Tight blood pressure control and risk of macrovascular and microvascular complications in type 2 diabetes: UKPDS 38. BMJ 1998; 317: 703-713.

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