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This is absolutely mind blowing! Although I can't help but nitpick on this: > What do experts think? > Prof Tom Shakespeare, from the London School of Hygien
by aurbano 7y ago
This is absolutely mind blowing!
Although I can't help but nitpick on this:
> What do experts think?
> Prof Tom Shakespeare, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine [...]
How is a professor in a Hygiene and Tropical Medicine school relevant? I feel like if you're going to get an expert's opinion you should at least find someone in a related field, like a neurosurgeon or neuroscientist...
- gadders 7y agoHe's a wheelchair user, if that makes any difference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Shakespeare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Shakespeare //edit// He is also currently Professor of Disability Research in the medical faculty at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.
- aurbano 7y agoThat makes a lot more sense - they should probably include those credentials instead of the place where he teaches, the way it is written now makes it seem like he isn't a subject matter expert...
- robocat 7y ago> they should probably include those credentials I can't think of a good way to present credentials beyond name and position. Adding extra information can lead to wierdities: "a disabled researcher" or "a white researcher" or "an elderly researcher".
- mantap 7y agoIt's not just a school of hygiene and tropical medicine. It's their name. Just like MIT doesn't only offer degrees in technology.
- dcminter 7y agoLSHTM is a medical research university (with an archaic name), so this is probably the right affiliation to cite but being general news content on the BBC I agree that they should have qualified that for the wider audience.