There was an interesting call to Any Answers? yesterday from a former Chief Investigations Officer with the customs service, who was in that career for 40 years and has followed and attended the deliberations of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. He said that it should be borne in mind that, apart from Professor Nutt, another Professor on the Council was and is advising in the opposite direction - i.e its reclassification to its present Class B status. That was Professor Lewis Appleby, the government's Director Mental Health.
So, the situation does not seem as clear-cut as has been made out. This fellow on Any Answers? also said that he thought Professor Nutt had not been sacked (from what is an unpaid role, by the way) for expressing opinions, but for not accepting the situation whereby politicians decide and the Advisory Council advises.
I merely pass this on.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Another advisory professor disagreed with Professor Nutt
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Fairly obvious who is going to be the next chair of that "independent" committee then. Ofv course since Appleby is already a paid government employee it would be surprising if he had kept tthe job if his advice were different. Note on Marr today how the government's chief medical officer 3 times refused to answer the question - was Nutt factually correct.
Government advisors are not there to advise government of the facts but to advise the public whatever the government says is the fact. Note that Sir David "Antractica will be the only habitable continent by 2100" King & Sir John "Saddam has WMDs" Scarlett both did veryb well out of giving "independent advice" that was wholly untrue but what the government wanted.
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