From the BBC
Richard Dawkins said that abandoning science programming would "cultivate ignorance".
He told the Radio Times that science formats were the real "reality shows". He also praised BBC's Stargazing Live and Dave's Dara Ó Briain: School of Hard Sums as examples of good science programming.
The scientist said: "For adults over a certain age who received little in the way of science at school - especially those schooled by young earth religious fruitcakes - science broadcasting is likely to be their best guide to reality, rather than listening to fairy stories."
4 comments:
I find that generally I have great difficulty understanding science programs, that is, unless I can see a scientist driving about in his/her car.
P, on physics programmes they like close up shots of coffee cups. Either they are falling and smashing (chaos theory), somebody is stirring it (Brownian motion, clouds etc) or the presenter is sitting their drinking it (shows he is intellectual).
isn't it important on physics programmes to deliver one short sentence on the summit of a mountain and then deliver the next sentence sitting on a beach? If it were not for these important visual clues, how would we know we were listenining to physics?
G, no that's Coxy who does that to the point of silliness, the others aren't quite so extreme.
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