> I wonder why BBC is running a story about this again? The BBC's science reporting is just shitty. They will repeat essentially any claim that is told to them

> I wonder why BBC is running a story about this again? The BBC's science reporting is just shitty. They will repeat essentially any claim that is told to them. Off the top of my head, I can recall: * They ran an article about a "three-headed frog" discovered by some schoolchildren, when in reality it was obviously three frogs engaged in amplexus. [0] * They ran an article about an entirely forgettable mathematical crackpot who claimed to have "solved" division by zero. [1] * They ran an article about blondes going extinct. [2] * They ran an article that was essentially the plot of H. G. Wells's The Time Machine. [3] [0] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/somerset/3534361.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/somerset/3534361.... [1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/content/articles/2006/12/06/divide_zero_feature.shtml http://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/content/articles/2006/12/06/d... [2] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2284783.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2284783.stm [3] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk/6057734.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk/6057734.stm