Originally Posted by Clippo

C_Steam,
Rather than shooting from the lip, you should have been a bit more circumspect before you exposed your paranoia.

The Independent has been giving out free booklets on many science topics over the last week or so - on topics like The Earth, The Elements, Evolution, Newtonian physics, Cosmology etc etc etc. - so all of these are biased as well?

Each booklet is is a condensate of science topic books based on the 'Very Short Introductions to' theme published by Oxford University press. So, if there is bias, perhaps you should take it up with them.

(Oh, I also remember the Independent giving away similar booklets a few months ago on the major Philosophers - did you blame the Independent for their differing views then? - Unfortunately, I didn't collect any of those because I am, by preference, a Telegraph reader. However, this doesn't prevent me from having an open mind tho' and reading other papers.)

Smackdown !!!!

Originally Posted by Ayn Rand

"Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good."