I expect no more religious output from the bbc
BBC staff ordered to stop giving equal airtime to climate deniers
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Re: BBC staff ordered to stop giving equal airtime to climate deniers
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
These people do not participate in science.
Next up: muting people who don't agree with the fact that inflation is good because the only people who deny it don't participate in economics.
But science isn't about someone agreeing with a theory. If you can disprove a theory, great. Otherwise no one really cares about your flawed arguments.
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#23No! There is no climate! There's no such thing!
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#24Quelling dissenters! A true victory for science!
Religious dissent? Unqualified, uninformed dissent? Yes, quell the hell out of it.
Re: BBC staff ordered to stop giving equal airtime to climate deniers
#25That sucks. If someone has an opinion, it should be free to be debated. The only way we can fight ignorance in science is with public debate. If someone wants to deny it, fine (otherwise it's not science) but put the hypothesis on the table and let people actually test it and debate it publicly. The proves only that the BBC has various political opinions and agendas and is not an unbiased source (as many people surel…
People have tested it and debated it publicly, and 97% of those professionally qualified to test it and debate it are of the same opinion.
Re: BBC staff ordered to stop giving equal airtime to climate deniers
#26That sucks. If someone has an opinion, it should be free to be debated. The only way we can fight ignorance in science is with public debate. If someone wants to deny it, fine (otherwise it's not science) but put the hypothesis on the table and let people actually test it and debate it publicly. The proves only that the BBC has various political opinions and agendas and is not an unbiased source (as many people surel…
"it should be free to be debated."
Right but it shouldn't be subsidized and given an artificial equal weight with a vast scientific consensus of experts. That's misleading which is the opposite of what journalists are supposed to do.
Re: BBC staff ordered to stop giving equal airtime to climate deniers
#27Quelling dissenters! A true victory for science!
From the article, it looks like the BBC reporters were actually going out of their way to ignore the opinions of interviewed scientists and went to fringe groups to gain a contrary opinion. If a contrary opinion is so difficult to find maybe that would have been the better report.
Re: BBC staff ordered to stop giving equal airtime to climate deniers
#28That sucks. If someone has an opinion, it should be free to be debated. The only way we can fight ignorance in science is with public debate. If someone wants to deny it, fine (otherwise it's not science) but put the hypothesis on the table and let people actually test it and debate it publicly. The proves only that the BBC has various political opinions and agendas and is not an unbiased source (as many people surel…
If someone holds the opinion that onions are actually evil aliens sent from the planet Zorlax to colonize the earth, should we also given them equal airtime? You need to draw a line somewhere, otherwise the airwaves will be full of nothing but crazies and their pet theories.
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#29Last Week Tonight with John Oliver had a great bit about this problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjuGCJJUGsg
Re: BBC staff ordered to stop giving equal airtime to climate deniers
#30That sucks. If someone has an opinion, it should be free to be debated. The only way we can fight ignorance in science is with public debate. If someone wants to deny it, fine (otherwise it's not science) but put the hypothesis on the table and let people actually test it and debate it publicly. The proves only that the BBC has various political opinions and agendas and is not an unbiased source (as many people surel…
I think this in the same vein as "We don't interview a psychic every time there is a murder".
If you want the BBC to be unbiased, then you could make the argument they have previously being biased towards climate change denial, given that a 50/50 interview on TV is not representative of the ratio of scientists who believe/don't believe in climate change.