Merged British drugs advisor sacked / Science & Nazis

[Mojo]

you missed this gem (caption to a photo of Hitler on that page) "Adolf Hitler: The Nazi Germany leader believed in science as the only truth"

The photo's vanished now. The comment is still there though (I at first thought it might just have been added by a sub, but it is in fact in Wilson's article):

The only difference between Hitler and previous governments was that he believed, with babyish credulity, in science as the only truth.

The headings are almost perfectly descriptive of the article though:

"Bluster"
"Irrationality"
"Naivety"

They should have had "Ignorance" as well though.

 

[GreyICE]

I always thought it was the "Abortion Hope" headline, where they suggested that the discovery of a gay gene was great, because we could abort the little gay turds.

 

[ponderingturtle]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/a...arrogant-gods-certainty-truly-hell-earth.html

This is a national UK newspaper that is claiming that science lead to the Nazis and that science is effectively immoral.

Good, they should turn in their word processors and electronic printing presses.

 

[Uzzy]

Great quote from the article: "The trouble with a 'scientific' argument is that it relies solely on empirical facts".

I think that's the quote of the year, for many, many reasons.

 

[Information Analyst]

It might be more a case of the principle over the money, but there's a nice blight on the Mail today:

BBC News: Kate Winslet accepts libel payout

 

[whatthebutlersaw]

And we thought the bleak future would be Orwellian.

This isn't so much 1984 as V (the 1980s tv series, not as in "...for Vendetta")

 

[dogjones]

And of course their oncology ontology:

http://kill-or-cure.heroku.com/a-z/p

 

[commandlinegamer]

Not sure where the Nazis come in, but here's an update on the sacking story:

http://prospect.rsc.org/blogs/cw/?p=2523

 

[INRM]

I don't know why Marijuana is illegal in the first place. Alcohol's legal and it's far more dangerous than Marijuana.