Re:The blessing and curse of people who never forget
by gaur on Sunday February 21, 2016 @07:04PM
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> I wonder why BBC is running a story about this again?
The BBC's science reporting is just shitty. They will repeat essentially any claim that is told to them. Off the top of my head, I can recall:
* They ran an article about a "three-headed frog" discovered by some schoolchildren, when in reality it was obviously three frogs engaged in amplexus. [0]
* They ran an article about an entirely forgettable mathematical crackpot who claimed to have "solved" division by zero. [1]
* They ran an article about blondes going extinct. [2]
* They ran an article that was essentially the plot of H. G. Wells's The Time Machine. [3]
The BBC's science reporting is just shitty. They will repeat essentially any claim that is told to them. Off the top of my head, I can recall:
* They ran an article about a "three-headed frog" discovered by some schoolchildren, when in reality it was obviously three frogs engaged in amplexus. [0]
* They ran an article about an entirely forgettable mathematical crackpot who claimed to have "solved" division by zero. [1]
* They ran an article about blondes going extinct. [2]
* They ran an article that was essentially the plot of H. G. Wells's The Time Machine. [3]
[0] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/somerset/3534361....
[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/content/articles/2006/12/06/d...
[2] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2284783.stm
[3] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk/6057734.stm