So as I’m sure most of you know, tonight there is a documentary about how we don’t need to worry about global warming.
www.channel4.com/science/microsites/G/great_global_warming_swindle/index.html
Whatever your feelings about climate change, there are good reasons to to have serious concerns about the film:
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If you don’t make it the recording quality will at least be better than this, although it’s only a pilot, I think, so it may never go out…
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I find creationism in the UK pretty peripheral and irrelevant, but this film is off the scale. These clips are from the jaw-dropping Jesus Camp, the full feature length film is truly unbelievable. I have never been so wide-eyed in my life. It also stars evangelical preacher Ted Haggard before the, er, gay sex & meth thing.
Ben Goldacre
Saturday March 3, 2007
The Guardian
In 1998 Arpad Pusztai claimed on national television and in the media that GM potatoes stunted rats’ growth and damaged their immune system. When the research was finally published, over a year later, it turned out to be significantly flawed.
During the crucial two days after the GM ‘Frankenstein Foods‘ story broke, Read the rest of this entry »
