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   From: bliss@sfo.com   
      
   Svenne wrote:   
   > 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.   
   	   
   	Yes but the last batch were the Inquisition and you can expect   
   them where ever there arises an institution with too much power.   
      
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   	"Always look on the bright side of life."   
   	__From the fellows at Monty Python's Flying Circus   
      
   >   
   > Svenne   
      
   	Professor Nutt is going to be ok but the danger of suppressing   
   the divergent opinion is to the society as a whole in the UK.   
      
   	later   
   	bliss   
   	   
      
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