This week has had the full panoply of BBC concerns laid out before us…climate change, Islam, Western manhood and imperialism and the banking crisis.
The BBC has decided long ago that these and a few other subjects are to be its main concern when it comes to ‘educating’ the British Public and inculcating in them a very particular way of thinking about the world.
The programmes as noted many times are specially selected, edited and broadcast in conjunction with other such programmes in order to mould our perceptions and make us realise that everything we think we know about our history and values is wrong and that the more we know about other cultures and their histories the more we will come to think that in fact we have much to feel guilty about and apologise for…and thence to make amends for.
One such programme is this which, if you know the recent history of the BBC and its ‘reviews’, you would have been just waiting for the inevitable denouement that you always knew was coming…in this case a defence of scientist Steven Jones’ BBC review of it’s scientific coverage in which he applauded the BBC and for which he was roundly and correctly criticised….and an attack on climate change critics.
Jones it should be noted is practically an employee of the BBC….it was the BBC who saved his career from encroaching obscurity as he couldn’t get any work as a scientist….the BBC set him up to deliver the Reith Lectures and then took him onto their books as a presenter.
Jones owes a lot to the BBC.
Jones states that the whole scientific edifice depends upon communication but that the BBC news is driven by the notion of impartiality (No really, it is)…but that notion shouldn’t be applied to science.
If a scientist were to say 2+2=4, even though that was empirically true, the BBC would have to turn to the ‘lunatic fringe’ to get a balancing comment…..this drives scientists ’round the bend’ because it is a false balance. ….what if 90% of scientists say 2+2=5? Is the consensus to be questioned then?
Jones says it is OK to have a ‘lone maverick’ scientist stating his criticisms but many ‘deniers’ are not scientists and have a political or social agenda.
And pro climate change proponents do not?…even the scientists have agendas beyond the science.
Jones goes on to tell us that argument is the essence of science, scientists don’t lie or have an agenda….it’s just that the Media doesn’t understand scientific methods.
Unfortunately I think we understand all too well….huge amounts of money are at stake in this climate change argument as well as enormous egos and scientific careers and reputations.
Many, many scientists will have a great deal of egg on their faces if they are proved wrong about CO2.
Many, many scientists will lose a great many research grants…and after all there are only so many jobs at the BBC for hasbeen scientists.
How BBC ‘scientific’ censorship operates via Mr S. Jones:-
“Climate change sceptics should get less BBC coverage and be challenged ‘more vigorously’, says report on science output”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2016299/Climate-change-sceptics-BBC-coverage-challenged-vigorously-corporation-body-rule.html#ixzz23B7036iW
‘How BBC ‘scientific’ censorship operates’
Any errant memos from the DG via Hugs Boaden on this on-high originated mandated policy?
Or was this one more a group effort?
Put an intelligent but morally vacuous man in a position where his livelihood depends on telling lies – given money by those in the Media who likewise are morally vacuous and dare not stand against the prevailing orthodoxy, which itself is derived from political highway robbers called Government. Sorry Steve Jones , kiss my arse, and I’ll give you a fiver. You are a crook with letters after your name.
An attack on ‘climate change critics’ is an attack on science, as there are hundreds if not thousands if not tens of thousands of scientists out there who are questioning AGW through sound evidence-based research. But guess what, you never hear them on the impartial BBC. Climate change is one of their most insidious thought-control narratives.
Jones is a charlatan (couldn’t quite bring myself to say ‘liar’) driven by leftist political dogma. ‘Climate change’ (the science formerly know as man-made global warming) is simply a front for the world socialist movement to get complete control over our lives. Sounds like a conspiracy theory, but take a look at UN Agenda 21 and decide for yourselves.
My group sent a complaint about the BBC’s poor climate change coverage to Professor Steve Jones, someone in the group got a polite reply saying that he would take the points made in the complaint into account when writing his report to the BBC. I do not think he replied after his report was published, to anyone who mentioned Cosmoclimatology or scientists on his taboo list.
Just read an article in the Space Special Interest group of Mensa Newsletter, jokingly called Enemies of Astronomy. See below.
At least fifty prominent NASA astronauts and scientists including at least three of the nine remaining moonwalkers Buzz Aldrin, Charles Duke and Harrison Schmitt have come out as Enemies of Science.
Another Geneticist who is fighting against the Enemies of Science is Professor Steve Jones who said that he would take the points made in my complaint to the BBC Trust into account when writing his report to the BBC. My complaint seems to have made BBC journalists reply to my emails. One hoped that the review and a look at different weather forecasters would help the BBC answer critics claims that it was biased on the issue of Climate Change, but the report was a shock, a BBC Journalist said “we where expecting an escape hatch from the madhouse not a straight jacket”.
I forgot to mention. Although I only know the background to one complaint to the BBC Trust about Climate Change. I was told about a report by the Global Warming Policy Foundation. Report 5. The BBC and Climate Change: A Triple Betrayal. It has an account of the bizarre report to the BBC Trust by Jones.
Here’s another who seems smitten…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/aug/12/bbc-olympics-coverage-cost-nbc
…but do I detect a hint of journalistic integrity creeping in the frustration when it comes to the ‘only ve ask ze questions’ reply served up?
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