Still getting huge amounts of comment spam (thanks nice girl lesbian, but no thanks). It’s getting ever more poetic. One, for health care, really caught my eye–
“infringing foresters.sweating comrades regrouped Anatolian Berman miscarriage”
Isn’t that a Mars Volta lyric? And if it isn’t, shouldn’t it be? Followed by thirty minute cucaracha track, of course.
Wait a minute. Prescott condemns the ‘Saddam killing’?? Or so says all the meejah that matter (BBC, Metro, Guardian, google news sources).
Sorry, but maybe I didn’t hear it right. What he said was
‘I think the manner was quite deplorable really. I don’t think one can endorse in any way that, whatever your views about capital punishment. Frankly, to get the kind of recorded messages coming out is totally unacceptable and I think whoever is involved and responsible for it should be ashamed of themselves.
It’s not the execution itself he’s condemning (contrary to ALL the reports) but the fact that someone was allowed to film it and then release that film on YouTube. It’s that action that he thinks people should be ashamed of.
It’s typical NuLab–don’t care what people are doing as long as no one knows.
Or have I got a stick at the wrong end?
Journalism is so easy these days. A pressure group comes along, makes a few mocking noises about someone or something, and it gets coverage as news. Hence ‘Sense about Science’. All over the press this morning (here, the TOday programme, here, T’Grauniad), mocking celebrities for their lack of knowledge about science.
Now, this is probably all very good. Though I can’t help thinking that anyone who follows Chris deBurgh’s advice on spiritual healing or ‘Dr’ Gillian McKeith’s on nutrition deserves all they get. But then I started to wonder. Why criticise celebrities who simply want not to eat too may pesticides?
Well, how about because your lobby group is funded by agri-chemical industries? Or biotech industries? Or is connected to the somewhat odd Living Marxism cult? Contrary to the news reports, ‘Sense about Science’ isn’t an objective pressure group. It’s virulently pro-GM, and the current reports seem to be part its long-standing campaign to deride opposition to GM-trials as ‘anti-scientific’.
Oddly, however, the BBC has frequently chosen to work closely with the pressure group (stories here and here) without explaining its actual beliefs and role. So let’s list those funders (inter alia) once again–
Amersham Biosciences
BP
GlaxoSmithKline
AstarZeneca
Pfizer
And remember people, you can never believe a word you hear or see on the meejah.