Comments on: Idiocy is a lesser crime than hypocrisy

By: milly

milly — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:57:23 +0000

i like tweed

By: GJ_

GJ_ — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:11:01 +0000

[quote]even if cannabis is getting stronger, which no-one has proved[/quote]
I’m from Holland and here the cannabis got stronger the past 20 years, and more than just a bit. You can easily taste it, there’s nothing to prove.

The amount of THC in it is increased…a lot. And that’s a good thing ;-)

By: Frank the SciencePunk

Frank the SciencePunk — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 22:55:49 +0000

RE: NG - yes, I could have made it clearer that today’s article was the Independent and not the Independent on Sunday, but I don’t accept that somehow a paper and its sunday edition are completely different entities.

If they were, I almost certainly would have wanted to see the Independent single out the IoS as the one responsible for this nonsense in the first place.

By: NG

NG — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 20:57:33 +0000

One of course might also conclude that The Independent On Sunday and The Independent are different newspapers with different editors which are not obliged to have the same opinions. Which indeed they are.

By: Steve Rolles

Steve Rolles — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 20:46:10 +0000

brilliant

Ive blogged this here:

http://transform-drugs.blogspot.com/2007/07/independent-debunks-itself-on-cannabis.html

cheers

By: JQH

JQH — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 16:23:54 +0000

They could aways borrow another leaf out of the Observer’s book and blame google for their mistakes.

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 14:46:19 +0000

well, cannabis use may be associated with memory loss…

re. hypocrisy, see also the Observer on MMR and autism: “We didn’t conflate the two issues; the issues are already conflated”. Gee, I wonder how on earth the issues got (incorrectly) conflated, given the type of high quality science coverage provided by the Observer…