The BBC is set to publish a report tomorrow on its science output announcing changes to rules on impartiality.So... it's not bias if you just outright ignore the other point of view.
According to the Daily Telegraph, the report draws heavily on an independent review of BBC coverage by Steve Jones, a professor of genetics at University College London. ((a position that emminently qualifies him as a media critic, I'm sure... -- Jemison))
Professor Jones is understood to have cleared the BBC of any suggestion of bias in its programming.
But the main conclusion made is that in cases where there is a widely held scientific view, such as on GM crops or the MMR injection, the BBC shouldn't give airtime to critics of the scientific consensus.
Whew! Good thing we figured out Ptolemy's astronomy and the theory of spontaneous generation were wrong before the BBC came along. Naturally, such rules mean that thorny subjects like catastrophism won't be troubling the public mind, either.
There's a reason the words "ignore" and "ignorance" have a common root...
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