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@Tomo thats a good Twitter to follow
https://mobile.twitter.com/Crock_Of
stewgreen
@Tomo yes except on Climate AK doesn't try himself to construct narrative whereas Cox is all SJW
@ST We make mistakes and mis-speak.
but BBC gets £4bn/yr not to
If such things are let through then bbc are not doing job .. They'll be a researcher and producer listening as well.
Alki should scribble on pad and push across desk
@ST ah it wasn't Alki last time
It was @tracy_aze
"Can you please clarify that bit about the Tanzania sea reaching 40C
Sounds 'too wow to be true' ?
#InOurTime @BBCRadio4"
She sent me a report link but didn't address the 40C claim
stewgreen
tomo. I would like to see Dr Helen Caldicot interviewed by Jeremy Clarkson after he had been deprived of his steak dinner.
Supertroll
tomo I must have been living in a cave. The lady Dr Helen Caldicot has, until today, gone completely unnoticed by me. and yet what a busy, busy Aussi she has been, spawning anti-nuclear groups across the globe willi-nilli, some with acronyms that make you twitch. I read up on her on Wikki this afternoon, and the best thing for me was her spat with Moonbat. He claimed one of her many books lacked scientific content, and she, in turn, accused him of being duped by nuclear supporters propaganda just as others have by tobacco companies. This must have really struck home since Moonbat commonly levels this charge at climate change "deniers". Oh just desserts do come to those who wait!
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Stewgreen , Supertroll
Jim A-K + "A Life Scientific" huh?
I would pay for him to have Dr Helen Caldicot on the prog - she's really big on science she is....
I'd add that Jim Al Khalili does seem on occasion to actually insist on tech stuff in the scripts he delivers - unlike say the boy wundah from Manchester and Helen of the unpronounceable surname.
tomo
Stewgreen. In defence of Al-Khalili, his programmes don't appear to be scripted and so he probably did not anticipate the comment about mammals not eating salt ( a more complete quote was that most mammals live away from the sea and none eats salt). Al-Khalili is a physicist and may not have considered salt licks. Even if he had, I suspect he would have let it go, not wishing to sacrifice losing too much time on what he might have considered an unimportant inaccuracy.
Generally I find Al-Khalili's programme a must listen to. Last week's was excellent with Liz Socett on a predatory bacterium. I was fascinated by this and contacted her with a question. I got a most pleasant and detailed reply within a few hours.
One change to the Al-Khalili programme I regret. Early programmes spent most of their time following the career of the interviewee, but now some programmes are devoted entirely to the science conducted by them -as was the case this week.
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@Tomo that was a useful tweet someone had added to wheelybin's
That video is the old honest BBC
But doesn't suit the dieselsRpaedos narrative so is a bit suppressed.bet the maker's been wheeledin
stewgreen
@ST Yep that's the second time You and I have both called Alkhalili out for not picking up on his guests obvious flawed claims
I tweeted but got no reply
"@No2BS
Replying to @jimalkhalili
Graham MacGregor just said
"No mammal eats (extra) salt"
Salt Licks ?
And sea mammals must have high intake
@BbcRadio4 #LifeScientific
9:18 AM · Apr 25, 2017"
No one else commented. 30 praised the prog. Some calling it mythbusting.
stewgreen
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I can tell you're impressed with Dr. Caldicott
- she's quite something when she warms to expounding her ideas about how people should live in her estimation - as in *nobody* needs refrigerators , or electricity (and a number of other things - but it's not healthy to revisit it all)
The words demented and harridan seem pitifully inadequate to describe the lady.
Her views on nuclear physics and radiation are simply quite boggling - and I'm not easily boggled. You are correct that she garners an extraordinary amount of funding - I did some trivial research (several times) and walked away as my indignation/disgust levels were dangerously high.
Moonbat's face was a picture in that interview eh?
A frightful deranged old bat - who actually attracts more of the same if the Hinckley Point meeting is any guide.