I see that the BBC’s Horizon programme is continuing its downward spiral into tales told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Last night saw the first of a new series wherein the conceit was to ask the question "what should science advisors tell the incoming US president?". Not a bad idea in itself, and some scientists who know whereof they speak were duly assembled, but the opportunity was utterly thrown away by the appalling televisual dross conjured up by the programme makers.
As Lucy Mangan says in her review in today’s Guardian:
A mind, as they say, is a terrible thing to waste. To waste several of the most intelligent, educated and original at once, in the first programme of a new series of a BBC flagship science programme, however, amounts almost to an achievement.
It was a total waste of time and the talents of the scientists involved.
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