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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   Printer-friendly
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.

 
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  • (Score: 1) by Buck Feta on Sunday July 06 2014, @01:16PM

    by Buck Feta (958) on Sunday July 06 2014, @01:16PM (#64841) Journal
    Conflict is at the heart of any good story, and so in search of a good story, journalists resort to "cranks" to build that conflict.

    Also, anyone who doesn't agree with this post is probably controlled by the Mind Zombies of Lithius 9 through an interstellar relay run by Bigfoot inside the pyramids.
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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by maxwell demon on Sunday July 06 2014, @02:28PM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Sunday July 06 2014, @02:28PM (#64859) Journal

    Also, anyone who doesn't agree with this post is probably controlled by the Mind Zombies of Lithius 9 through an interstellar relay run by Bigfoot inside the pyramids.

    Well, that's obviously nonsense. First, it should be general knowledge that there are only Lithius 1 to Lithius 8; if there's no Lithius 9, then how could there be Mind Zombies of Lithius 9?

    Also, it is known that Mind Zombies never control anything or anyone, they are controlled. It's the Mind Vampires who control people. Especially they control Mind Zombies.

    Moreover, it is an established fact that mind control doesn't work over relays, the mind control rays have to be applied directly.

    Also, Bigfoot would never operate a relay of anything. Bigfoot is completely technophobe. Moreover, Bigfoot would never enter a pyramid, the pyramidic energy field would kill Bigfoot. Not to mention that it would also destroy any relay of whatever type if anyone tried to build it inside a pyramid.

    Now of course it cannot be an accident that you spread so much misinformation about mind control, so it's evident that you are controlled by the Mind Vampires of Magnesius 3.

    SCNR :-)

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    • (Score: 1) by GeminiDomino on Sunday July 06 2014, @04:07PM

      by GeminiDomino (661) on Sunday July 06 2014, @04:07PM (#64880)

      Well yeah. That's what Bigfoot and his Lithian cohorts want you to think!

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    • (Score: 2) by VLM on Sunday July 06 2014, @09:15PM

      by VLM (445) on Sunday July 06 2014, @09:15PM (#64963)

      " First, it should be general knowledge that there are only Lithius 1 to Lithius 8; if there's no Lithius 9, then how could there be Mind Zombies of Lithius 9?"

      GD scientists. Fine, Kuiper belt object / trans-Neptunian object / dwarf planet / Plutoid number 9. Close enough for government work.