Thursday, January 04, 2007

One step forward, two steps back

Stars must check science facts, says a story on the BBC site. A charity called Sense About Science exists, amongst other things, to get celebrities to find out a few facts before lending their media weight to stories that may not be 100% accurate, like linking the MMR jab to autism. And quite right too.

The next story down on the same page: Stars begin Big Brother journey, as the latest shovelload of has-beens heads for the euthanasia cubicle Big Brother house. I confidently predict that late-into-the-night conversations between Cleo Rocas and Dirk Benedict as to the scientific accuracy of Battlestar Galactica will not be taking place.

3 comments:

  1. But I bet they'll be discussing how best to get Cleo to shake her B.A. Baracus maracas... I love it when a mam comes together. Sorry. That was appalling. I feel chagrined to my very soul.

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  2. Chris Morris would have been a bit stuffed if Sense About Science had been knocking about ten years ago.

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  3. True, but the good probably still outweighs the bad. Anyway, this is Sense About Science, not Sense About Mass Hysteria so he may have got away with it.

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