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BBC, clickbaiting / trolling. http://www.livescience.com/33663-walking-tree-socratea-exorrhiza.html http://www.livescience.com/33663-walking-tree-socratea-exor

by acqq 11y ago

BBC, clickbaiting / trolling. http://www.livescience.com/33663-walking-tree-socratea-exorrhiza.html http://www.livescience.com/33663-walking-tree-socratea-exorr... "the so-called walking palm tree (Socratea exorrhiza) found in Latin America. Many people believe it can literally walk around (more or less)." "The amazing ambulatory ability of the walking tree has been told by rainforest guides to tourists for years, and appears in many sources as an amazing plant adaptation." "A tree that walks in search of the sun is a fascinating, bizarre story. Alas, it's also not true; the tree is real enough, but it doesn't walk — or even stumble. It sits where it sprouted, not moving except under the force of wind (or an axe)." Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratea_exorrhiza https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratea_exorrhiza

soneca 11y ago
That means basically the whole article is innacurate (a lie)? That's more than clickbaiting, it is fiction sold as journalism.
- acqq 11y ago
  That BBC has a lot of untrue, lying or simply worthless articles since some time. Somebody could invent a conspiracy theory around it, but I believe the "conspiracy" is just among the managers who want "profit" no matter what. And nobody who can influence them will consider "bad" what they do. For example, they quote a guy as the source. They just report what he says. Not checking the facts. As this specifically is "not for the UK public" nobody can even complain that they "uneducate" their own citizens. Sad, knowing that under same name some of the best scientific programmes were produced before.