Re: Big data is good for the NHS and good for all of us
I think you would find that almost everyone here would be perfectly happy to support medical research like the study you mention. I would sign up for that tomorrow.
Because of that, the government have decided that they won't allow us the option of supporting legitimate, ethical researchers without also allowing their unethical, corrupt mates (the ones who employ ex-Whitehall players as "consultants" or "lobbyists") to rape the data to make money from it and from us and to use it in their campaigns to cherry-pick the profitable parts of the NHS leaving the state to pick up the unprofitable parts.
That is why I am opting out.