today

"The Register" hits back, in great detail. Particularly telling is "The number of applicants to higher education courses in physics had dropped to a third,.... perhaps because scientists were portrayed (by the BBC ) as ludicrous, misanthropic self-publicists, and science itself merely a sequence of unsupportable claims."

Somewhat similar points about scientific accuracy or the lack of striving for it, have also been made about the "New Scientist", though a more positive note was striven for in the n-category (Corfield/Baez) blog.

IMO: Lets face it, both "New Scientist" and BBC publish a lot of crap. Unfortunately some sensible people believe it. I have also frequently commented in my blogs about the high degree of corruption in the Western media, presumably often on behalf of Western Governments. Maybe it is best if they are frequently told that at least some people know that some of it it is crap. Certainly the BBC sometimes seems to be little more than a mouthpiece for the UK Government. Maybe it would take a conspiracy theorist to suggest that the so-called 'faith schools' will soon try to climb even further onto the bandwagon. Ironically in this regard, bearing in mind Kurzweill and de Garis (both of whom would rank at least at Muslim cleric or even RC cardinal level in faith school terms), schools which proclaim themelves as 'secular faith schools', if we ever get them, could even turn out worse than the regular kind. A sobering thought.