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- FOI: Coyne ridiculous Tue, 2 Feb 16, 8:39pmAs many readers are aware, our old friend Stephan Lewandowsky has recently published a paper in Nature that sets out his views on the circumstances in which scientists should release their data to others - the thrust of the...
- All change at the SMC Thu, 9 Jul 15, 11:00amHere's something I missed last year. There has been a major clearout of the board at the Science Media Centre, with Nature's Philip Campbell, Bob Ward and Simon Singh departing replaced by names who are all less familiar...
- What is the Science Media Centre for? Thu, 22 May 14, 10:07pmI'm grateful to a reader for pointing out something interesting about the Science Media Centre, and in particular about the experts it selects for reaction to major stories...
- Myles out of line Thu, 13 Mar 14, 12:11amThe reverberations from the Lewis/Crok report are still playing out in the blogosphere. In particular there are some interesting comments at Ed Hawkins' blog.
- Comedy debate Thu, 6 Mar 14, 2:25amI always like it when upholders of the scientific consensus hold a debate, because they never fail to give us the opportunity to have a good old laugh at them...
- Science Media Centre hits new lows Fri, 27 Sep 13, 8:25pmRead this from the Science Media Centre. ...the slowdown has risked becoming the bête noire of climate science. It has been unfairly framed as (another) nail in the coffin for global warming – ‘You...
- Science Media Centre spins the pause Tue, 23 Jul 13, 2:39amThe Science Media Centre is best known to readers here for its press release about the Oxburgh inquiry, in which they managed to quote only scientists implicated in wrongdoing over Climategate.
- Science Media Centre's casual misrepresentation Thu, 20 Jun 13, 5:24pmThe Science and Technology Committee's first hearing on public understanding of climate science was, as expected, a bit of a charade, with softball questions being tossed by green-tinged MPs in the direction of like-minded...
- Birthday gongs Sat, 15 Jun 13, 8:05pmThe Queen's birthday honours list was announced today. Climatologists were not in evidence but there were a couple of familiar names: Iain Stewart of Climate Wars fame and Fiona Fox of the Science Media Centre.
- The Black departure Wed, 23 Jan 13, 9:24pmThe Carbon Brief is surveying the state of climate reporting in the mass media, and includes an interesting observation about Richard Black's departure from the BBC.
- Leveson Fri, 30 Nov 12, 5:46amLord Leveson's report is out. I'm afraid I'm not going to have time to say much tonight, but suffice it to say that he has ignored everything Tony N and I had to say. In fact he has even gone as far as to repeat the incorrect...
- The science cringe Fri, 5 Oct 12, 6:09pmThe Science Media has also issued this video about how wonderful they are.
- Ten years of the Science Media Centre Thu, 4 Oct 12, 6:01pmThe Science Media Centre is celebrating ten years of doing whatever it is it supposed to do and has issued a glossy brochure to celebrate its greatest hits...
- The Bishop, the Sky and the Leveson Inquiry Fri, 17 Aug 12, 11:00pmThe Leveson Inquiry has just published a submission from myself and Tony Newbery of the Harmless Sky blog.
- NZ Science Media Centre hides the evidence Sun, 19 Feb 12, 12:17amThe Science Media Centre's press release on the Heartland documents has yet to appear on their website, but as readers here know, it was posted up by their counterpart organisation in New Zealand - I gave a link a couple...