What Tim Spector thinks about government
British epidemiologist, professor of genetic epidemiology at King's College London and co-founder of the nutrition company ZOE, who writes the Gut Feelings newsletter.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Tim Spector has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsMy own view, and it is the direction the evidence points, is that we are better off spending our very limited NHS resources on encouraging people to be aware of their own bodies and to come forward early, and on building a faster, more efficient service to treat cancers when they are caught early, rather than on screening millions of people who will never develop these cancers.
↗Cancer screening: is it really as simple as it sounds?timspector.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece