Man in a Shed: BBC doesn't even do unbiased science any more

Saturday, October 28, 2006

BBC doesn't even do unbiased science any more

I saw the last Horizon program and as on a number of other occasions keep asking myself is it just me or is Horizon just loosing touch with science. Their programs seem more interested in how people feel about things than underlying principles. ( Maybe the program makers suffered under the 2 science GCSE fiasco in our schools. ).

Anyway I'm not the only one - check out what The Register has to say on the subject.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: Yet another example of the so called 'post-modern' age we live in where reality is disseminated from personal perspectives.

What intrigues me is that the Beeb clearly have a secularist agenda, yet they also promote any kind of spiritual or moral perspective going. If they were truly secularist, they would promote the vision of the Enlightenment.

That they do not is testament to the moral bankruptcy of the Beeb because they stand for nothing!; 8:26 pm

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