Psychic fails test, BBC focuses on bullshit excuses

If you’re a skeptic then I guess the following story isn’t really news, nevertheless the way its been written up by the BBC is well worth noting: A scientific experiment has found that two mediums were unable to demonstrate that they had special psychic powers. The test by […]

The Devil Rides Out at the BBC (updated)

Yesterday, the BBC News ran what, by any measure, is a rather unpleasant local story from Cornwall… A horse has died after being horrifically mutilated in a field in Cornwall, detectives said. Devon and Cornwall Police said the tortured animal died from severe injuries to its head and […]

BBC makes piss-poor job of JRF alcohol report

If you’ve caught the BBC’s news output this morning on television, radio or teh interwebs, you’ll have seen this: Parents’ behaviour ‘can influence teen drinking’ Children who see their parents drunk are twice as likely to regularly get drunk themselves, a survey of young teenagers has suggested. Poor […]