Is 'Gerin oil' the root of all evil?

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Is 'Gerin oil' the root of all evil?
A professor blames this drug for history's major atrocities... clever readers will spot the anagram
By Steve Bloomfield
Published: 25 September 2005

It is a powerful, highly addictive drug openly peddled on street corners and in purpose-made buildings across the country. Suicide bombers get high on it and governments encourage its use. It can be hallucinogenic, destroys lives and, in its strongest doses, start wars.

In an article in this month's respected Prospect magazine, Professor Richard Dawkins, one of Britain's leading scientists, paints an apocalyptic vision of a world addicted to Gerin oil - a drug which works its way into the central nervous system and can cause "dangerous delusions" if used regularly.

Professor Dawkins, who was voted Britain's top public intellectual last year, blames Gerin oil for most of the major atrocities in history, from the Salem witch-hunts to the attacks on 11 September.

He also accuses governments of subsidising schools which have "the specific intention of getting children hooked". The drug does not feature on the Home Office's list of banned substances and is, Professor Dawkins claims, freely available without prescription.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article314997.ece

[valerief]

1. Gerin oil doesn't work without either

Poverty and ignorance
or
Mega-greed

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. LOL. Thanks! Brave man, Dawkins.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. It's "Visome nut oil", according to Objective:Ministries

http://www.objectiveministries.org/creation/dawkinswatch.html#9-25-2005 :-)