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In July 2006 Rebecca Boden and Debbie Epstein <ref>[http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a747710742 Managing the Research Imagination? Globalisation and Research in Higher Education. ''Globalisation, Societies and Education'']</ref> published a paper in which they wrote:

:This need [for evidence] has been reified in the UK and elsewhere, as routines of ‘evidence-based policy’-making have been hardwired into the :business of Government. Intuitively, basing policies that affect people’s lives and the economy on rigorous academic research sounds rational and :desirable. However, such approaches are fundamentally flawed by virtue of the fact that Government, in its broadest sense, seeks to capture and :control the knowledge producing processes to the point where this type of ‘research’ might best be described as ‘policy-based evidence’. (Boden and :Epstein 2006: 226).

The term "policy based evidence making" was later referred to in a report of the [[United Kingdom]] [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]] Select Committee on Science and Technology into Scientific Advice, Risk and Evidence Based Policy Making issued in October 2006. The committee stated: