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    #21
    Originally posted by zeitghost View Post
    And decent scientific programmes like that...

    The Global Warming thing with Iain Stewart was highly irritating.

    Talk about a one note tune.....
    Why didn't they get a climatologist to present the program? Did the BBC think that a Geologist from Plymouth poly was a close enough match?

    He did report on how scientists had got it so wrong when predicting an ice age in the 70's but made no mention of them being apologetic or being discredited for such a huge blunder, yet when he mentioned that the so called sceptics were mistakenly using unreliable satellite data for measuring earth temperature he was practically jumping up and down saying how incredibly embarrassing that must have been.

    He also alluded to the fact it was oil companies that had most to gain by spinning the so called lie, yet he failed to mention that governments all over the world were using the other side of argument to extract huge amounts of ‘guilt tax’ with nothing to show for it.
    Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave Johnson

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      #22
      Originally posted by HairyArsedBloke View Post
      Joe Bloggs not Baxter
      How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think

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        #23
        Originally posted by zeitghost
        Oh no!

        Say it isn't so!

        My illusions is shattered.
        Would it help if you knew he did the stunts while wearing a prosthetic glove to hide the fact that he lost the thumb and forfinger on his left hand when a "prop" bomb he was given while shooting another film turned out to be real and exploded when he lit it?
        "Being nice costs nothing and sometimes gets you extra bacon" - Pondlife.

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