Nutt's Sacking

[NWC]

There was "very strong feeling" among the council's members over Prof Nutt's sacking, Dr King said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8336635.stm


ahh

[Shibboleet The Annihilator]

Best thing I've read all day.

[Jean-Lustine d'Hadamard]

I think it's time the incumbent Home Secretary resigned.

The Labour Party is fucked anyway. In power while essentially unelectable, it seems like they're hell-bent on going down in flames.

[Cain]

Parliament should resign.  I can think of about 10 MPs possibly worth keeping, and at least two of those are for comedy value.

[Jean-Lustine d'Hadamard]

Parliament should resign.

Well, I try to keep my erotic fantasies within the realm of some possibility...  

I can think of about 10 MPs possibly worth keeping, and at least two of those are for comedy value.

Names?

[NWC]

I guess I would care about this if I lived in England, but I don't. I'm just here for the testicle joke

[Jean-Lustine d'Hadamard]

I guess I would care about this if I lived in the United Kingdom, but I don't. I'm just here for the testicle joke

Fixt;

[Chief Uwachiquen]

I guess I would care about this if I lived in that place with the tea, trumpets, and those funny Python guys, but I don't. I'm just here for the testicle joke

Fixt;

Further fix'd with the Americanologist spin on things.

[Jean-Lustine d'Hadamard]

PLEASE BE UPSTANDING AT THE MENTION OF

tea, trumpets, and those funny Python guys

[Chief Uwachiquen]

 

Fuck me running. I meant crumpets.

[NWC]

england uk whatever, ain't got time for that shit


there are more important questions at hand. namely, why was David Nutt sacked?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markeaston/2009/11/why_was_david_nutt_sacked.html

[P3nT4gR4m]

He was sacked cos he pointed out the fact that our prezitator is a fat fucking retard and it turns out the fat retard fucking hates being called on that shit. IMO it's evidence enough of his retardedness, if not his fatness, that he thinks he can hide that shit from anyone with two eyes and an intellect. Meanwhile smoking pot may or may not be illegal this week. Pot smokers may or may not give a flying fuck.

[Jean-Lustine d'Hadamard]

I believe he was sacked because of the following.

1. Professor spends good deal of life academically researching the effects of drugs.
2. Professor is asked to advise government on what should be done about drug abuse.
3. Science and derived advice found not to be in line with prevailing doctrine/political expediency.
4. Government enacts policy and legislation inconsistent with this advice, and the science upon which it is based.
5. Frustrated professor, who only wants to help sort out the problems of drug abuse in the UK, calls them out on this publicly.
6. Government tells him to shut up, and tries to put him "in his place" when he was actually doing what an academic ought, and was never out of said place in the first place.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/nov/02/drug-policy-alan-johnson-nutt

Professor Nutt was not sacked for his views, which I respect but disagree with (as does Professor Robin Murray, who wrote in your newspaper on Friday).

He was asked to go because he cannot be both a government adviser and a campaigner against government policy. This principle is well understood and long established.

Make of that what you will.

[Golden Applesauce]

He was asked to go because he cannot be both a government adviser and a campaigner against government policy. This principle is well understood and long established.

So you can advise the government, as long as your advice doesn't conflict with existing policy?  Doesn't that defeat the purpose?

[Scribbly]

You can advise whatever you like. He got fired because, after ignoring his proposals, he went on to make public statements attacking the drug policy for not accepting his proposals.

Basically, he could have kept offering his advice, so long as he kept it coming through the official channels, rather than going to the press in an aggressive manner. It's not exactly surprising that the guy got canned put in that light, is it?