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BBC to Stop Inviting Guests with Marginal Views to Discuss Non-Contentious Scientific Issues

posted by azrael on Sunday July 06 2014, @10:42AM   
from the flat-earth dept.

lhsi writes:

The Telegraph reports:

BBC journalists are being sent on courses to stop them inviting so many cranks onto programmes to air 'marginal views'.

The BBC Trust on Thursday published a progress report into the corporation's science coverage which was criticised in 2012 for giving too much air-time to critics who oppose non-contentious issues.

The report found that there was still an 'over-rigid application of editorial guidelines on impartiality' which sought to give the 'other side' of the argument, even if that viewpoint was widely dismissed.

• Re:BBC has abandoned science, then? (Score: 5, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Sunday July 06 2014, @11:15AM

  by maxwell demon (1608) on Sunday July 06 2014, @11:15AM (#64807) Journal

  The advancement of science depends upon marginal views. But oh well, Radio and TV and Internet have all been invented and BBC already uses them, so why should the BBC care about progress?

  The BBC is not the place to advance science, that's what scientific journals are for. The BBC is there to inform the public. And if a marginal view is presented as anything else than a marginal view, it's misinformation.

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  The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.

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