Comments on: Baddest science in the whole damn town

Baddest science in the whole damn town

Sidhedevil — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 12:57:08 -0800

My fab fave UK public intellectual was somehow overlooked in the popularity contest discussed yesterday, and I was surprised that nobody had ever FPPd him here (at least, as far as the search function can determine...)

By: davehat

davehat — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 15:29:17 -0800

I find it hard to think of him as an intellectual. But then I remember him when he was 17. Top bloke though. Cleverer than a bag of clever hedgehogs and funny to boot.

By: mr_roboto

mr_roboto — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 15:30:55 -0800

Fun reading, Sidhedevil. I followed one of his columns to this article, which describes errors in middle school science textbooks. For example: We found a photograph of pop diva Linda Ronstadt: In the caption she was labeled as a silicon crystal. She had been labeled as a vacuum triode in a previous edition of the book.

By: billsaysthis

billsaysthis — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 18:53:15 -0800

mr_roboto, don't you think the latter is a more appropriate label for the singer's later oevre?

By: raygirvan

raygirvan — Sat, 03 Jul 2004 04:37:14 -0800

Sidhedevil: seconded. Extra credit for Bad Science being the only slot in a mainstream UK newspaper devoted to sceptical issues. They should give him a full page, not that mean little sidebar.