Tag Archives: BBC

Pro-GM = anti-science.

Posted on August 18, 2015 by biowrite

It’s time to call the pro-GM lobby out: you are unqualified to talk about impacts on health and the environment. You are corporate shills. Continue reading →

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Gaza: BBC admits hiding the horror @BBCr4today

Posted on July 29, 2014 by biowrite

The BBC, de facto ally of the murderous Israeli regime, has possibly come as close as it ever will to admitting that its coverage of what is happening in Gaza is…. ahem… partial. Someone’s head may roll for not considering the … Continue reading →

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Unbelievably, yet more BBC pro-GM bias

Posted on June 24, 2014 by biowrite

[UPDATE, May 2022: It continues! Food experts slam the BBC for ‘lies’ about genetic edited foods] [UPDATE: I have now received a response from the BBC dismissing my argument that the programme was biased but failing to answer my charge … Continue reading →

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BBC ignores climate-change elephant, focuses on trivia

Posted on February 26, 2014 by biowrite

Listening to today’s edition of World at One on BBC Radio 4, I was pleased to hear that Ed Miliband had,  in the course of Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs), raised the issue of Owen Paterson, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and … Continue reading →

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BBC must allow the truth a voice: social mobility can only come from greater equality

Posted on May 26, 2012 by biowrite

BBC fails to invite relevant experts to discuss low social mobility I was pleased to hear the UK’s low social mobility discussed on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme this morning, but annoyed that the people involved did not include either … Continue reading →

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Of love, litter, ordure and Occupy (oh, and Bob Dylan’s alleged plagiarism) – Valentine’s Day musing

Posted on February 14, 2012 by biowrite

Infuriated/irritated by Radio 4 I must confess that I am a bit of a Radio 4 addict, although as anyone who has seen my recent postings on the Paul Johnson episode of Desert Islands Discs will know, this doesn’t mean … Continue reading →

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Another letter to BBC re Pinochet’s ‘peacekeeeping’.

Posted on February 9, 2012 by biowrite

[This is No.4 in a series of blog posts on Paul Johnson’s statement on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs that he admired Chilean mass-murderer General Augusto Pinochet because he ‘saved Chile from civil war’.  You may read the others … Continue reading →

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School for torture but no civil war? More on BBC allowing Paul Johnson to praise Pinochet unchallenged.

Posted on February 8, 2012 by biowrite

[This is No.3 in a series of blog posts on Paul Johnson’s statement on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs that he admired Chilean mass-murderer General August Pinochet because he ‘prevented civil war’. You may read the others here: No.5, … Continue reading →

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James Herriot is back. Oh, no! Read this health warning.

Posted on December 21, 2011 by biowrite

I see the BBC is running a new series of James Herriot films.  Alas, another generation will doubtless succumb to the charming tales of this Yorkshire vet (real name James Alfred ‘Alf’ Wight) and decide that being a veterinarian is … Continue reading →

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