“Ignorance and magic are their shield and their armour, which is fair enough: the right to be invincibly stupid is inalienable. But invincible stupidity does not confer the right to damage other people’s property, to wreck scientific inquiry by midnight vandalism, to oppose the rule of democratically created law by organised criminality.”

The entire article by SIRC is excellent.  At this link:

http://www.sirc.org/articles/tide_against_greenpeace.html

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co-director
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World-renowned zoologist, author and painter

Prof. Lionel Tiger
Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers

Prof. Robin Fox
Professor of Social Theory at Rutgers University

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Professor of Anthropology at Brown University

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Director of The Royal Institution of Great Britain

Prof. Jeya Henry
Professor of Human Nutrition at Oxford Brookes