Link sent to me by reader Scott:
Tonight on BBC 4’s Beyond 100 days:
‘Infant mortality began to rise after 2015. More babies died at a higher rate each year in England. They didn’t in Scotland. And in Scotland they actually decided to spend more on infants and babies and there they have reduced the infant mortality rate.’
The presenters’ faces a second after he said that:
They didn’t have a follow-up question on the Scottish situation but went quickly on to talk about how their US viewers might think about this. Dorling then referred to the lower life expectancy and higher infant mortality there, before saying:
‘England is getting to be more like a state of the United States. Scotland, interestingly, is moving towards being more like the Scandinavian countries which have incredibly good health outcomes.’
Presenter: ‘Sooo interesting.’
I didn’t watch Reporting Scotland tonight. Did Professor Dorling appear to say this?
Talking-up Scotland / Scottish media fact checking is like shooting fish in a barrel 
And here is a clip of the interview – embedded in the Tweet (worth retweeting if you do such things?) in case you like to watch – it’s exactly as described above though!
https://mobile.twitter.com/erikgeddes/status/1232963249206943744
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Thanks for the link Contrary. . .
This should be shared wide and far!
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It was also an example of the BRITAIN is ENGLAND mindset. The male presenter in his feeble whitewash referred to ‘the north of the country’, by which he actually meant the bit south of the Tweed, not the 35% of the landmass north of it.
I think that the Sun will re-release its infamous video of a baby box being blowtorched and Call Kaye will have a third call in to PROVE how bad baby boxes are, with quotes from the representatives of charities in England whom hardly anyone has heard of – even in England. I am sure Reporting Scotland will prepare footage of pigeons nesting in a discarded baby box close to the QEUH, by ‘close’ I mean within a 100 mile radius and there will be an ‘expert’ who will point out with a serious and portentous expression, “You know? Birds can fly ……..!”
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