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September 26, 2005 - It is a fact that sharks are amongst the cleanest animals
on Earth, for they keep up the fortitude of their species by eating even
their own when they die, or when they bleed or get weak. While that does not
speak much for their intellectual capacity, it certainly ensures that only
the strongest and most ferocious reproduce: Darwinism in action!
The same seems to be true for at least two human
sub-species as well: bureaucrats and grant-gobbling antismokers – the latter
using the former as carriers for proliferation. Let me be more specific: I
have quietly followed with interest the public “transformation” of Michael
Siegel, a prominent antismoker lad I had the dubious honour of engaging
several times in the past on the battlefields of forums and public debates.
As FORCES is reporting this on-going story (the latest,
More Personal Attacks by Anti-Smoking Advocates)
I will not burden the reader with the details. I will only say that Mr.
Siegel has finally demonstrated objectivity in his assessment of
Martha Perske and of
FORCES - and that is absolutely remarkable, given the track record
of antismokers.
It is so remarkable, in fact, that other inhabitants of
the foul waters of the Sea of Grants -- international public fraud and
“public health” advocacy -- have gone ballistic and have turned to attack
mode. But what did Mr. Siegel do to provoke this? He cautiously spoke the
truth – that is, he said that FORCES may not be a creature of the
tobacco industry, that it may indeed represent a part of public
opinion, and that Mrs. Perske is a
honest and scrupulous researcher. Wow… no-no-no, Mr. Siegel – haven’t
you learned yet what it means to be an antismoker? Let me remind you some
of the commandments:
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Smoking kills, always and at any rate (no redemption
other than quitting).
The truth, that there is no scientific proof about that statement, is
entirely irrelevant, and any indication contrary to that postulation
must be dismissed as Big Tobacco “trash”, or utterly suppressed. The
fact that Big Tobacco has given up the use of that truth long ago is
also irrelevant.
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Passive smoking kills, always and at any rate (no
redemption other than bans).
The fact that there is a blatant misrepresentation by public health
authorities of the statistical evidence at hand (ALL of which indicating
conclusively that there is ZERO demonstrated risk from exposure – so
much for institutional integrity!) is also to be dismissed as Big
Tobacco trash. This despite the fact that only
4 out of 113 base studies that lead to the same negative conclusions
have been financed by Big Tobacco - and that ALL studies are a
mockery of science and statistics while being plagued with
gross methodological malpractice.
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Public health is the paramount value of society.
All other values - such as liberty, constitutionality, truth, economics,
free enterprise, personal responsibility and moral integrity - are
absolutely irrelevant and/or have to submit unconditionally. Any
dissent from that credo only defines the enemy to be silenced and/or
destroyed. Thus, those who seriously conduct research and portray things
as they are fall into this category, and must also be destroyed. In
virtue of this:
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The antitobacco movement is inherently right, just
and true
– thus, it is heresy to disagree with its goals and methods.
Disagreement can come only from those who sold their integrity to
the devil – that is, to the tobacco industry.
Get it, Michael? What have you done to yourself – what
have you been smoking? You have revealed that you may even be a man of
integrity after all, and you seriously risk being thrown out of the water!
You see, FORCES has always confounded the antismokers because it does not
get money from the industry, (nor is there a chance of that happening,
because the industry has bent over). Unfortunately it is only because of
that lack of money that we haven’t been able to clean up the shark
infestation. A couple of years ago I had a lot of fun writing an
article about the ANSR’s “investigation” of FORCES’ funding, and what I
wrote then still applies today.
Think about it, Mr. Siegel - you are still in time to
recite the redeeming words: “They are paid by the tobacco industry, they
are!” Your old buddies have already started circling in the water, and
if you don’t repent, we’ll see Darwinism in action once again.
Gian Turci
C.E.O., FORCES International
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