As a result of this meeting, three further members of the comittee have resigned. More as it turns up. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
I've just heard that three more ACMD members have resigned, after the Council met with Alan Johnson. The latest resignations represent a deepening in the crisis of confidence of scientists in the Government - in particular, in the Home Secretary. That they come after Alan Johnson met the ACMD demonstrates that he just doesn't get it when it comes to the importance of respecting the academic freedom and integrity of independent, unpaid, science advisers. Ministers are entitled to their own opinions, but not to their own facts.
I've just heard that three more ACMD members have resigned, after the Council met with Alan Johnson.
The latest resignations represent a deepening in the crisis of confidence of scientists in the Government - in particular, in the Home Secretary. That they come after Alan Johnson met the ACMD demonstrates that he just doesn't get it when it comes to the importance of respecting the academic freedom and integrity of independent, unpaid, science advisers.
Ministers are entitled to their own opinions, but not to their own facts.
We're politicians, we're better than that.
this quote from an article about Bush;-
''This is why he dispenses with people who confront him with inconvenient facts,'' Bartlett went on to say. ''He truly believes he's on a mission from God. Absolute faith like that overwhelms a need for analysis. The whole thing about faith is to believe things for which there is no empirical evidence.'' Bartlett paused, then said, ''But you can't run the world on faith.''
Seems Johnson is running on stale Blair keep to the Fen Causeway
It's what happens when politicians are drawn almost exclusively from the ranks of arts graduates whose understanding of the desireability of demonstrable truth is somewhat strained keep to the Fen Causeway
Unfortunately it's not politically expedient to admit the science in public.
That's what politics is - professional dishonesty, pandering to whoever pays your expenses.
The resignations are unfortunate, but as far as Johnson is concerned advisers can always be replaced - so this isn't a crisis so much as a rather understated purge of dissidents.
That's what politics is - professional dishonesty, pandering to whoever pays your expenses the Daily Mail.
There !! Fixed keep to the Fen Causeway
