There’s an exceptionally stupid article by Magnus Linklater in the Times today. He talks about the recovery of the British osprey population over the past 50 years with reference to their apparent monogamy and long-term pair bonds. The article ends:
What the osprey demonstrates is that, whatever indiscretions may be committed in the course of [...]
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Ospreys, monogamy and stupidity
16 April 2008 – 3:07 pm
Brilliant BBC fact-checking
2 May 2006 – 6:49 pm
BBC London, reporting on some building developments which are being held up by protests from English Nature, announced that the three key bird species were ‘Dartmouth Warbler’ (actually Dartford Warbler), Woodlark and Nightjar. But the really amusing bit was that the Nightjar was illustrated with film of some Wigeons. It’s always slightly unnerving when journalists [...]
Bad science reporting
26 September 2005 – 11:57 am
Ben Goldacre says (full article here):
There is one university PR department in London that I know fairly well - it’s a small middle-class world after all - and I know that until recently, they had never employed a single science graduate. This is not uncommon. Science is done by scientists, who write it up. Then [...]