You may or may not be aware of the weekly science Podcast "The Skeptics Guide to the Universe".
In this week's episode (#188) (mp3 link, starting at 21:32) amongst the usual stories, the commentators have a go at the Sun's coverage of scientific issues, specifically its recent articles about "Atlantis" appearing on Google Earth and Cat-Boy.
The Sun doesn't get favourable coverage. Its Atlantis coverage is accused of faking a quote from an expert (Dr Charles Orser) and due to the Cat-Boy report the Sun gets labelled as being the UK's version of the Weekly World News, i.e. it has no credibility what so ever regarding science.
3 comments:
Excellent: I was going to email you this, but someone beat me to it!
SGU is a fantastic show.
Faking a quote from an expert. This, so recently after quoting a faking expert. Tch. They'll be experting a quote faking next, just you watch.
(We need a science writer at some stage. Let's assign the task or advertise after we tidy the place up a bit.)
Tom
I listen to it every week.
Thanks though.
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