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From: "Clive Elwell" <jevans@thenet.co.nz>
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Subject: Repression and Dr Pusztai
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 22:45:36 +1300
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Eastern Daily Press on 16/2/98
>
> Scientist must not be gagged
>
> BRIAN BAXTER, Lime Kiln Cottage, Swaffham.
>
> Recently I spent some time in the company of Dr Arpad Pusztai and =
during
>the whole time I spoke to him I was impressed by his knowledge, his
>sincerity, his clear thinking, his good humour and his honesty. He was, =
in
>my humble opinion, a very good man in every sense of the word.
>
> During our conversation he told me of his work in the past under
>different totalitarian regimes, all of which in their day were very
>repressive. However, when he said that none of them, even Stalinist =
Russia,
>had treated him with the repression that he has received in this =
country
>over recent months it made me realise that we have much to be ashamed =
of.
>
> It would appear for instance that no scientist is allowed to disclose =
any
>discovery without it being passed by those in authority above. In other
>words truth is no longer acceptable if it goes against the ideas or =
ideals
>of those in power This is surely a disgrace to our nation as is the =
gagging
>order which Dr Arpad Pusztai is still under.
>
> Our Prime Minister has stated that the best way forward in the debate =
on
>GM food is on the basis of scientific evidence, then surely Dr Arpad
>Pusztai's evidence of the harm done to rats when fed on GM potatoes =
should
>be evidence enough that everyone should proceed with more caution =
before
>any of this food appears, if at all, in our diets.
>
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