Comments on: BBC dumbs down science, scientists http://www.badlanguage.net/bbc-dumbs-down-science-scientists How to communicate Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:01:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Bad Language / Richard Feynman: The pleasure of finding things out http://www.badlanguage.net/bbc-dumbs-down-science-scientists#comment-350189 Bad Language / Richard Feynman: The pleasure of finding things out Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:38:35 +0000 http://www.badlanguage.net/?p=305#comment-350189 [...] rants on the BBC’s mission to dumb down science programming: BBC dumbs down science and Cultural relativism doesn’t work at 30,000 [...] [...] rants on the BBC’s mission to dumb down science programming: BBC dumbs down science and Cultural relativism doesn’t work at 30,000 [...]

]]> By: Matthew Stibbe http://www.badlanguage.net/bbc-dumbs-down-science-scientists#comment-8214 Matthew Stibbe Fri, 03 Nov 2006 07:38:47 +0000 http://www.badlanguage.net/?p=305#comment-8214 This Cargo Cult - Feynmann link is excellent. Thanks for that. Matthew This Cargo Cult - Feynmann link is excellent. Thanks for that. Matthew

]]> By: Erik http://www.badlanguage.net/bbc-dumbs-down-science-scientists#comment-8137 Erik Fri, 03 Nov 2006 00:04:17 +0000 http://www.badlanguage.net/?p=305#comment-8137 The comparison to scientology material is apt - the show is simply intellectually bankrupt. Like scientology's captrap, it is a case study in cargo-cult science: http://wwwcdf.pd.infn.it/~loreti/science.html If only the BBC producers took the time to be honest in their presentation of science... but "the wisdom of the ancients" has clearly been lost. The comparison to scientology material is apt - the show is simply intellectually bankrupt. Like scientology’s captrap, it is a case study in cargo-cult science: http://wwwcdf.pd.infn.it/~loreti/science.html

If only the BBC producers took the time to be honest in their presentation of science… but “the wisdom of the ancients” has clearly been lost.

]]> By: Nick http://www.badlanguage.net/bbc-dumbs-down-science-scientists#comment-6954 Nick Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:39:09 +0000 http://www.badlanguage.net/?p=305#comment-6954 "The wisdom of the ancients" - LOL - they were presumably the same ancients that helped Erich von Daniken to a small fortune? I have two teenagers (one at Uni); and both have received eye-wateringly expensive educations, yet both are unquestionably victims of a world dominated by designer branding. But they are not alone. I was discussing the merits of the new VW powered Skoda Octavia vRS the other evening, and couldn't fail to detect much of the same from other parents - as one, with raised eyebrows, they asked "A Skoda...?!" “The wisdom of the ancients” - LOL - they were presumably the same ancients that helped Erich von Daniken to a small fortune?

I have two teenagers (one at Uni); and both have received eye-wateringly expensive educations, yet both are unquestionably victims of a world dominated by designer branding. But they are not alone.

I was discussing the merits of the new VW powered Skoda Octavia vRS the other evening, and couldn’t fail to detect much of the same from other parents - as one, with raised eyebrows, they asked “A Skoda…?!”

]]> By: Robert http://www.badlanguage.net/bbc-dumbs-down-science-scientists#comment-6885 Robert Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:24:47 +0000 http://www.badlanguage.net/?p=305#comment-6885 What's in Hugh's mind? Apart from an empty plot maybe a potential ech chamber or an anti-matter experiment in the waiting? On a serious note, are we also now witnessing the result of A-Level dumbing down just so that Labour can boast about high school exam pass rates? Today's kids are not being pushed to research, ask questions or think beyond the next iPod tune they want to download or BigMac they want to get fat on? Maybe the kids of today have also become so falsly class and style concious from TV overload that the thought of donning a non-designer branded labcoat to do do research is too much to contemplate? What’s in Hugh’s mind? Apart from an empty plot maybe a potential ech chamber or an anti-matter experiment in the waiting?

On a serious note, are we also now witnessing the result of A-Level dumbing down just so that Labour can boast about high school exam pass rates? Today’s kids are not being pushed to research, ask questions or think beyond the next iPod tune they want to download or BigMac they want to get fat on?

Maybe the kids of today have also become so falsly class and style concious from TV overload that the thought of donning a non-designer branded labcoat to do do research is too much to contemplate?

]]> By: John Dodds http://www.badlanguage.net/bbc-dumbs-down-science-scientists#comment-6422 John Dodds Sun, 29 Oct 2006 01:27:12 +0000 http://www.badlanguage.net/?p=305#comment-6422 But what is in Hugh Grant's brain? Enquiring minds need to know. But what is in Hugh Grant’s brain? Enquiring minds need to know.

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