CONOR LENIHAN: PROFESSIONAL MORON
Sep 14th, 2010 by Conor McCabe
Minister for Science Conor Lenihan is to officially launch a book exposing the “fiction of evolution”.
Mr Lenihan will attend the launch of The Origin of Specious Nonsense by Dublin writer John J May in Buswell’s Hotel on Wednesday evening.
According to the book’s website Mr May says evolution “cripples sanity, promotes myths and obscures reality”.
He also said anyone who teaches evolution is “either ignorant or deliberately suppressing the known scientific facts.
“It [evolution] is a toxic poisonous mind virus which destroys the hearts immune system against hope and common sense,” he added.
Mr Lenihan said he is not launching the book as Minister for Science but rather as a TD because Mr May is a constituent of his.” (Irish Times, 13 September 2010)
That was then. This is now.
Mr Lenihan confirmed on Tuesday that he will not attend the launch, but added that he thought that diversity of opinion was a good thing.Academics and scientists have said the incident calls into question the science minister’s judgement. (BBC, 14 September 2010.)
Love the photo and caption Conor. Your own work?
Guy I work with was in the same year as him in Belvedere and UCD, and was able to confirm that yes indeed that he has always been a complete f*ckwit.
Great tales of (allegedly) incompetently trying to rig elections in UCD to his (again allegeded) involvement in a very dodgy pyramid scheme in London in the late 80’s.
haha! Oh my God. Unbelievable. The mockup is mine but the photo’s from an event out in Maynooth last year. I got it from the alumni publication, The Bridge.
Your abillity to dig out the killer image and nail it with the appropriate caption is high art.
Cheers!
Really, you should have opened it for a caption competition. My entry would have been:
Science guy: “And the thoughts are created here, not in the anus as you suspected”
Conor Lenihan: “And what about those left-field thoughts. You know, the ones whizzing through space at speed, looking for a host. The type of thoughts that are so brilliant that they can’t be your own, they just have to have been sent by an extra special intelligence pooing them down from above, and when you have them they’re so GOOD that you have a responsibility to tell the world about them?
Science guy (after a moment): Well, actually, you’re right in one sense. Those thoughts do come out your ass.
Don’t think you would have fitted that below the photo though.
Ugh, I shouldn’t do comedy.
This is a whole lot funnier than anything I have ever read in Twenty Major.