The International Year of Statistics 2013 - Series of Public Lectures 2013-04-29 17:30: Failings in hierarchies of evidence for controversial health-policy decisions (Professor Sir Michael Rawlins (NICE)) 2013-05-22 17:30: Numbers are weapons: a self-defence guide (Tim Harford, of More or Less) 2013-05-28 17:30: What’s happening to the world? (Professor Sir John Beddington FRS FRSE) 2013-06-20 18:30: Putting life into numbers - how statistical science has transformed health care (Professor David J. Spiegelhalter OBE FRS (Cambridge))