Government drugs advisor David Nutt sacked for, erm, using science and advising

Did this Comment is Free article get David Nutt fired? Using the media to accuse ministers of “distorting” and “devaluing” scientific evidence on drugs may not have been the most tactful thing ever done by a government advisor, but if Alan Johnson’s intention here is to dampen down a difficult political issue Scrapbook predicts this will have precisely the opposite effect.