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- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!darwin.ntu.edu.au!salter_duke
- From: salter_duke@darwin.ntu.edu.au
- Newsgroups: aus.politics
- Subject: Re: Inoculation aggro
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.131458.4282@darwin.ntu.edu.au>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 13:14:58 +0900
- References: <BxsyqL.I81@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au>
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- In article <BxsyqL.I81@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au>, kerry@citr.uq.oz.au (Kerry Raymond) writes:
- > salter_duke@darwin.ntu.edu.au writes:
- >
- >>However, this campaign is being attacked by a local loony
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- >
- >>Any other advice to pass on to my friend?
- >
- > Respect the rights of other people to have a different point of
- > view, perhaps?
- >
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- I do respect the rights of other people to have a different point of
- view. If this guy was trying to convince everyone that the moon
- was made of green cheese I wouldn't have a word to say against him,
- and I might even contribute to his defence fund.
-
- But he is not a gentle eccentric: he is trying to stop people
- immunizing themselves and their children against rubella, and
- he is using distortions, dodgy arguments, and spurious statistics
- to do so (I can give you the details if you want).
-
- I called him a loony. What's your word for someone who is doing their
- best to stop people protecting themselves against a clear danger?
-
- Linden
- --
- Linden Salter-Duke email: SALTER_DUKE@DARWIN.NTU.EDU.AU
- Northern Territory University
- Darwin, Australia Snail: Box 40146, Casuarina, NT 0811
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