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There's a general, kind of... In the media,

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there's a lot of that kond of stuff people don't know about numbers,

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I'm a numbers guy, I'm a dweeb, all right? I apologise.

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I'm a bit of a nerd about these kind of things

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I get really pissed off when people give out about, like

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crime going up, when say, the numbers are definitely going down.

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And then if you go "The numbers are going down," they go,

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"but the fear of crime is rising."

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And you're going, "but so what!?" You know what I mean?

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Zombies are at an all-time low level,

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but the fear of zombies could be incredibly high.

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It doesn't mean we have to have government policies to deal with the fear of zombies,

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It's ridiculous, for Christ's sake.

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The NHS... There was a survey in the NHS about dentistry, where they found that

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some people were removing their own teeth! You know...

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And they brought on some senior dentists onto Sky News, and gave out to him, and said

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"This is terrible, People are removing their own teeth!" And this guy stood there and went

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"Well, obviously systems should be put in place to deal with it."

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Which is stupid! He should be going "Well, these people are clearly morons of the highest line"

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[Laughter]

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"Who removes their own teeth, for Christ's sake?

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I'm a dentist, I don't remove my own teeth, y'know what I mean?"

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But there's kind of a notion that everyones opinion is equally valid. My arse!

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Bloke who's a professor of dentistry for 40 years does not have a debate with some idiot

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who removes his teeth with string and a door. Alright? It's nonsense.

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And it happens all the time with medical stuff on the television. They'll have a doctor on

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and they'll talk to the doctor, and they're all "doctor this, and doctor that" and

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"what happened there" and "doctor, isn't it awful?" Right?

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And then the doctor will be talking about something, with all the benefits of research and medical evidence.

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And they'll turn away from the doctor, in the name of "ballance", and turn to some

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quak, witch doctor, homeopath horse shit peddler on the other side of the studio.

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[Laughter]