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   From: tvaerskaegg@aol.com   
      
   On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:45:55 -0000, "The Todal"    
   wrote:   
      
   >How do we give the Government clear messages about the dangers of exercising   
   >arbitrary and irresponsible authority? Telling scientists what to believe.   
   >The impertinence of it.   
      
   Politicians telling scientists to recant and punishing them if they   
   don't is nothing new.   
      
   After the professor said, quite correctly, that taking ecstacy is less   
   dangerous than horse riding Jacqui Smith gave him an injunction to   
   "abandon this doctrine, not to teach it to others, not to defend it,   
   and not to treat of it" and to "abjure, curse, and detest those   
   opinions." Or maybe I'm thinking of another scientist who's facts fell   
   foul of the Authorities.   
      
   Still, Professor Nutt wasn't threatened with torture and sentenced to   
   house arrest for life.   
      
   Svenne   
      
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