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date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:03:47 +0000,
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Mad Mel on form in the Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1224578/MELANIE-PHILLIPS-Fatuous-dangerous-utterly-irresponsible--Nutty-professor-whos-distorting-truth-drugs.html
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John Watson
London
date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:03:47 +0000
author: John Watson
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Re: Mad Mel on form in the Mail
On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:03:47 +0000, John Watson
wrote:
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>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1224578/MELANIE-PHILLIPS-Fatuous-dangerous-utterly-irresponsible--Nutty-professor-whos-distorting-truth-drugs.html
Melanie Phillips is a SCIENTIST now, is she? And an expert on drugs as
well?
I was so intrigued I went off and googled:
"Born in 1951, Melanie read English at St Anne's College, Oxford
before training as a journalist on the Evening Echo, Hemel Hempstead.
After a short period on New Society magazine, she joined the Guardian
in 1977 and soon became its social services correspondent and social
policy leader writer. After a stint as the paper's news editor, she
started writing her column in 1987, taking it to the Observer and then
the Sunday Times before starting to write for the Daily Mail in
December 2001."
So, no, then. She's a JOURNALIST!
MM
date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:14:20 +0000
author: MM
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Re: Mad Mel on form in the Mail
On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:14:20 +0000, MM wrote:
>So, no, then. She's a JOURNALIST!
Really?
I thought she was a bulshitter.
Svenne
date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:53:17 +0200
author: Svenne
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Re: Mad Mel on form in the Mail
"Svenne" wrote in message
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> On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:14:20 +0000, MM wrote:
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>>So, no, then. She's a JOURNALIST!
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> Really?
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> I thought she was a bulshitter.
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Talks "common sense". Dunno which journal that's published in, though.
date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 14:55:58 -0000
author: Mr X
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Re: Mad Mel on form in the Mail
"John Watson" wrote in message
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> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1224578/MELANIE-PHILLIPS-Fatuous-dangerous-utterly-irresponsible--Nutty-professor-whos-distorting-truth-drugs.html
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And surely everyone would want to read the wise and well-researched views of
the dullard Peter Hitchens, too:
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/debate/article-1224335/PETER-HITCHENS-The-slow-motion-New-Labour-putsch-swept-nation-away.html
Good riddance to Professor Poison
Cannabis is an evil lottery ticket whose top prize is a lifetime gibbering
in a locked ward. And it pays out rather more often than the other lottery.
So it is pleasing to see the dismissal of the fatuous Professor David Nutt,
the Government's supposedly scientific adviser on drugs.
Professor Nutt seems strangely unaware of the mounting evidence of the
dangers of cannabis, particularly the work of Robin Murray, who recently
savaged Professor Nutt's use of statistics and attacked the general
sloppiness of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.
Professor Nutt's diversionary tactic of claiming that tobacco and alcohol
are 'more dangerous' than some illegal drugs is the age-old excuse of the
hippy generation.
So what if they are? How does the existence of two legal poisons justify the
creation of more? Why is it an argument against properly enforced laws to
discourage them?
It is vital that we do all that we can to warn the young against these
dangers. It is too late to ban alcohol, though many of us would like to go
back to strict licensing rules.
The law worked against drunken driving and in reducing smoking. Our
drug-corrupted political and media elite view Professor Nutt as a hero
because he helps them excuse their own wrongdoing.
Read more:
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/debate/article-1224335/PETER-HITCHENS-The-slow-motion-New-Labour-putsch-swept-nation-away.html#ixzz0ViRUkULt
date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 15:21:14 -0000
author: The Todal
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Re: Mad Mel on form in the Mail
On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:53:17 +0200, Svenne
wrote:
>On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:14:20 +0000, MM wrote:
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>>So, no, then. She's a JOURNALIST!
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>Really?
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>I thought she was a bulshitter.
That's right, a journalist!
MM
date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:49:51 +0000
author: MM
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Re: Mad Mel on form in the Mail
"John Watson" wrote in message
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> John Watson
> London
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She really is vile.
date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 01:22:01 -0000
author: JohnR
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Re: Mad Mel on form in the Mail
Noticed at Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:22:01 +0000: JohnR informed us:
> "John Watson" wrote in message
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>> John Watson
>> London
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> She really is vile.
Read A N Wilson's rant in today's.
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John Watson
London
date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:55:56 +0000
author: John Watson
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Re: Mad Mel on form in the Mail
On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:55:56 +0000, John Watson
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>Noticed at Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:22:01 +0000: JohnR informed us:
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>> "John Watson" wrote in message
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>>> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1224578/MELANIE-PHILLIPS-Fatuous-dangerous-utterly-irresponsible--Nutty-professor-whos-distorting-truth-drugs.html
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>>> John Watson
>>> London
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>> She really is vile.
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>Read A N Wilson's rant in today's.
I don't think I have ever read such a load of complete tripe!
For example, quote:
"The trouble with a 'scientific' argument, of course, is that it is
not made in the real world, but in a laboratory by an unimaginative
academic relying solely on empirical facts."
MM
date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:38:41 +0000
author: MM
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