Are bad teeth the number one reason kids go to A&E?
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Are bad teeth the number one reason kids go to A&E?

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 16, 202628 min

Tim Harford investigates some of the numbers in the news. This week: (00:33) Are crumbling teeth the number one reason children attend A&E? We drill down into the dental health of the nation’s kids. (08:20) The US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has claimed that a quarter of pharmaceuticals used in the UK come from Israel. We check the facts. (13:20) Is former Education Secretary Michael Gove responsible for increasing number of young people not in education, employment or training? (20:11) An AI researcher has caused a global firestorm by suggesting there’s more...

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Hello and welcome to More or Less, your ever-cheerful guide to the numbers all around us, from dentistry to doom. I'm Tim Harford. This week, the government are blaming Michael Gove's education reforms for ruining the employment prospects of a generation. But what do the numbers say?

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Are a quarter of the UK's pharmaceuticals manufactured in Israel? And on a lighter note, what's the chance that artificial intelligence kills every human on the planet within a decade. But let's start by talking teeth. Kids are forever getting into scrapes and if you have

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one, I suspect you've spent a weekend or two in an accident in an emergency unit nursing the little one after a nasty fall. But I wonder, have you ever ended up in A&E because your child had toothache? Loyal listener Calvin Kewitt got in touch after hearing a jaw-dropping claim from Libdem

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