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It is well known that Rand was a pill freak, addicted to uppers for decades. It may be true that her alcohol consumption did not match her husband's, but her cigarette and pill habits were gargantuan.

In the final days of her life one of her last friends (the rest were long gone), Joan Blumenthal, asked her to renounce her position on tobacco, and retract such remarks as "To be anti-smoking is to be anti-life!" Rand knew that many Objectivists smoked as a sort of honorific to her. At that time Rand had just had half a lung removed due to smoking induced lung cancer. She knew she had been wrong about cigarettes. Blumenthal said, "Many people still smoke because they respect you and respect your assessment of the evidence. [Rand deplored the "unscientific and irrational" nature of statistical evidence] Since you no longer smoke, you ought to tell them. You needn't mention the lung cancer if you prefer not to, you can simply say you've reconsidered the evidence." Ayn refused. "It's no one business," she said.

What kind of philosopher is that? There are dozens of similar tales in her life story -- hundreds in fact. You think Little Billy Clinton has trouble admitting error? He is a piker compared to Ayn Rand.

Ayn Rand got a few important things right, but her overall she was a brilliant nutjob whose views about reason and human nature are hopelessly stunted. As many have said, if she'd had a child, avoided the affair with Branden and stayed off pills, she might have made a true contribution to epistemology. As it is, though, her "philosophy" is an empty husk with only occasional relevance to life as it is really lived.

You think Little Billy Clinton has trouble admitting error? He is a piker compared to Ayn Rand.

Did you EVEN bother to read my Post? I never said she didn't. You really ought to try researching things first before trying to lecture other people.

Ayn Rand got a few important things right, but her overall she was a brilliant nutjob whose views about reason and human nature are hopelessly stunted

Once again I nerver said she wasn't immmature. In fact if you even bothered to read my Post you would see that I had said............

The older I get, the more critical of her I get. She was very 'Obsessive' in a abnormal-psych way.

I'd, once again really appreciate you're properly knowing the background before you open your mouth. Liberal elitists like Clinton loved to lecture people too because THEY always knew best. I guess you fall into that catagory.