The thirty-fourth weekly "No shit, Sherlock" award

This week's award goes to the House of Commons' health select committee for reaching the staggeringly unsurprising conclusion that (in the words of The Telegraph:

"Ministers stand accused of spending vast sums of money on "ineffective and possibly damaging" interventions which they hope will force lifestyle changes on the public, without carrying out elementary research to see if the programmes make any difference."

"No shit, Sherlock"


The Telegraph's article on this select committee report is full of "No shit, Sherlock" moments, here's a few more:

"The inquiry says projects were designed so badly that it was impossible for them to be properly evaluated, reporting the views of one expert that documents which passed for research often amounted to "little more than propaganda". "

"No shit, Sherlock"

"It concludes that ministers have "spent large sums of money on social experiments to reduce health inequalities – but we do not know whether these experiments have worked or whether the money has been well spent." "

"No shit, Sherlock"

"Liberal Democrat Health Spokesman Norman Lamb said ... "Ministers have been flailing around implementing policies left, right and centre with no way of analysing how effective they were and without any idea of what was actually being done on the ground.""

"No shit, Sherlock"