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‘Tough on Drugs’ is inherently flawed : Comments

By Kathryn Daley, published 10/9/2007

The zero tolerance approach to drug abuse pushes the issue behind closed doors, further forcing it into the hands of criminals.

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In Victoria scientific method was abused by Swinburne University Simulator research funded by VicRoads to support a world's first zero tolerance of drug driving which has nothing to do with competence to drive. In the public media on the Catalyst ABC radio show Swinburne and Monash researchers let the interviewer state that "the morgue results leave no doubt", yet Professor Drummer has published in the Bristish Medical Journal an article on the unreliability of "morgue results"

In summary the Swinburne research was inadequate to support zero tolerance error prone saliva testing of drivers because it was:

A. A simulation on an inadequate single screen model
B. A pilot study sample of 40 subject
C. Not replicated by other studies
D. There was disclosure of VicRoads and Victoria Police funding

The abuse of science to support repressive laws seems to me to be sponsored by some Pharmaceutical companies.

My editorial with more information of this deeply flawed research being used as false evidence for zero tolerance drug testing.

http://www.hereticpress.com/Editorial.html#Simmodels"

Tim Anderson
http://www.hereticpress.com"
Posted by Heretic, Saturday, 6 October 2007 1:05:37 AM
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