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"The BBC thinks it's important to give theories that aren't the mainstream consensus an airing"
...I paraphrase the BBC bod justifying last weeks daily David Attenborough prog about the flaky aquatic ape theory, when the savanah model is certainly the consensus one...speaking at the beginning of this weeks R4Feedback

15:50 minutes in They have Paul Johnson (Inst of Fiscal Studies IFS *) talking about reporting stats
"BBC Pretty good BUT ..some concerns..like BBC staff sometimes fail to give context, whether they are disputed or not .... they are often not challenging figures"
"There is no use reporting different figure without indicating where the balance is"
"Like Climate Change ..you should say 'most experts say this' so on the huge balance of probability we are going to say this is TRUE" (Ahem that is a logical fallacy of argument from authority... he went too far)

...They go on to say "oh that £350m that was simply untrue" (Ahem it was 100% true as long as you give context that is pre-rebate..the first time I heard it on the BBC the UKIP guy immediately did that))

* He forgot to mention IFS funding is 11% from EU, as well as getting money from the BBC source

Sep 23, 2016 at 9:58 PM | Registered Commenterstewgreen

Basingstoke Green Week 2016 to take part in two workshops on the subject of sustainabilityYou can also book early tickets to their 2031 event "10 Years to unsafe warming”

Sep 23, 2016 at 8:58 PM | Registered Commenterstewgreen

Re : Electric car problems
They are tax free in Norway, but today's newspapers have stories that in Norway Tesla customers found after spending £80K their Tesla's performance is nowhere near as good as promoted.
126 Norwegians are suing Tesla because their cars don't live up to expectations

Sep 23, 2016 at 8:54 PM | Registered Commenterstewgreen

Ross, some time ago I bought the complete box set of the Quatermass TV programmes from Amazon. Sadly only two episodes of (I think) the Quatermass Experiment - the first one - exist. Quatermass II was really frightening and Quatermass and the Pit showed Nigel Kneale at his best I think.

Sep 23, 2016 at 7:28 PM | Unregistered Commentermike fowle

This paper calls into question the current theory of "Dark Matter"

http://phys.org/news/2016-09-spiral-irregular-galaxies-current-dark.html

Sep 23, 2016 at 7:26 PM | Unregistered CommenterRoss Lea

And here is a sample I am sure most will see the parallel !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DogEuoJXFGI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llNCA9j5TTI

Sep 23, 2016 at 6:57 PM | Unregistered CommenterRoss Lea

The "Green Blob" is reminiscent of a TV programme that frightened the life out of me in my pre-teen years called
The Quatermast Experiment, and an even more terrifing sequal. I was about some sort of alien fungus taking over the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quatermass_Experiment

Sep 23, 2016 at 6:40 PM | Unregistered CommenterRoss Lea

Is their anyrhing comparing to Rachael Carson ?
Yes, the soft politicians like Jo Cox who encourage migrants to jump the queu of proper channels by crossing the Med.
"The year the little 3 year old Syrian boy was washed up on the beach 4,500 drowned.. In the year since his death 5,500 have drowned (BBC Trending prog on WS)
(330,000 illegal migrants crossed the Med into the EU this year (R5 Up all Night on Tuesday)

Sep 23, 2016 at 5:18 PM | Registered Commenterstewgreen

Just spotted a pedal genny for sale - take a while to make a cup of tea I suspect.

Sep 23, 2016 at 4:51 PM | Registered Commentertomo

I think not, young golfCharlie, no dark ages for me. I have a trusty treadmill upon which the ever willing(?) granddaughter will create light to run my solar-powered steam radio so that I might listen to the dulcid tones of Humphries on my beloved BBC on a dull morn. Eat your heart out.

Sep 23, 2016 at 3:41 PM | Unregistered CommenterACK

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