[ILUG] OT: Irish minister for science helping launch ananti-evolution book?

[Frank Peelo]

It's in Buswells. He can nip across on his lunch break. No mileage 
necessary. Why shouldn't he go to celebrate something his mate believes 
in so strongly, and say that he disagrees with the book but is chuffed 
that it got written, or something?

On 13/09/10 22:24, Mark Dennehy wrote:
> Why would it be okay for *any* Government Minister to go in their
> official capacity as minister to the launch of a self-published book
> denouncing evolution, written by a crackpot with no scientific
> qualifications whatsoever, while we as taxpayers pay that Minister for
> his time and mileage, and the author gets the financial benefit of the
> press coverage of a Ministerial appearance?
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> On 13 September 2010 22:20, Frank Murphy<frankly3d at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>> On 13/09/10 21:09, Braun Brelin wrote:
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>>   What I think that most of the people here object to
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>>> is a public servant, paid by the taxpayers,
>>> and responsible for the promotion of science and technology in Ireland,
>>> should be seen at such a blatantly anti-science event.
>>> He's free to go, of course, but we're also free to object, and to make our
>>> opinions heard on this matter.
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> So I deduce a non-science Minister would be okay?
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