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Ars Mathematica » Blog Archive » Elsevier Ends Arms Fairs — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:04:49 +0000

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By: SG

SG — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:53:12 +0000

damn! sprung! It`s true I`m an anti-anti-single-outer-single-outerer, from way back. Curse your perspicacity!

By: dsquared

dsquared — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:50:02 +0000

there are far worse anti-single-outers than engels, SG, though I notice that you choose to concentrate all your attacks and demonisation on him alone. What’s your real agenda here, as if I didn’t know?

By: SG

SG — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:05:02 +0000

Are you singling out someone’s complaint about singling out an issue, engels? Not very sporting. I think your anger is confected, and I can only conclude that you are an anti-singling-outer. Shame on you!

By: engels

engels — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:43:25 +0000

So who’s going to have the moral clarity to point out that you can’t boycott Reed Elsevier unless you first boycott everyone and everything in the world who has committed worse wrongs? Or is this line of argument reserved for special occasions?

By: John Quiggin

John Quiggin — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:30:13 +0000

You don't have to be a pacifist to regard arms fairs as something the world would be better off without. They are, for example, venues for the illegal trade in landmines. not to mention the wide dissemination of clusterbombs and other instruments of state terror.

By: Mike Dewar

Mike Dewar — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 07:50:22 +0000

Isn’t everyone who works on a government grant partially funded by the defense industry? The EPSRC, for example, receives funding from Rolls Royce…

By: alphie

alphie — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 05:31:44 +0000

Seems fair…provided they also stop publishing works by academics who receive funding from the defense industry.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:49:16 +0000

OH! Weapons arms! …you can imagine my confusion as I was thinking physical/biological limb-arms…