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Oct152010
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Bishop Hill
Bishop Hill Bob's boss in bizarre hoax
Oct 15, 2010 Climate: Ward Media It's not often I link readers to the Sun, but this turned up via a Google alert. It appears that Bob Ward's colleague at the Science Media Centre, the former revolutionary communist, Fiona Fox, is something of a practical joker. Fox, readers may remember, has called for sceptic views to be avoided in media coverage of global warming.
She is also apparently a close friend of Jim Devine, a former Labour MP who is now facing fraud charges over his expense claims. She appears to have got herself involved in a bizarre and rather nasty practical joke involving Devine and his office manager, and which has now led to a substantial damages award against the politician.
They're a rum lot at the Science Media Centre aren't they?
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Fiona Fox's elder sister is Claire Fox (Moral Maze BBC radio 4). They are both ex-RCP (a leftist groupiscule) and associated with the Living Marxism/Spiked crowd.
The difference between them is Claire is a AGW skeptic. Here's Fiona on her sister's "anti-science views"
I get furious with her sometimes. I believe in an evidence-based approach to science, but Claire is more driven by her political passions. I heard her on [Radio 4’s] The Moral Maze saying the “bloody scientists” are exaggerating the risk of bird flu, and that made me very cross. I phoned her from Center Parcs, and within two minutes we’d both slammed the phone down. Then, because we don’t want to stay on bad terms, we e-mailed. I sent her the research, and she came back with her political point. She takes the same stance on climate change: she knows the evidence is there; her point is that the human race is far more resilient than people think.
Younger people won't remember but Bird flu killed up to 4 billion people worldwide.
I said up to!
People here are slinging mud at Fox by linking to articles from Monbiot, Abess, and other angry global warmist propagandists. The irony must be lost on them.
It Fox truly is implicated in something... (what, precisely?)... by working with or near high profile warmists -- often on matters completely unrelated to climate -- then people linking here to muck-raking articles from high profile warmists are at least as daft. Wake up!