Re: well, there goes the BBC, too


John Larkin wrote:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4340102.stm
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> "Shenzhou VI, which has two astronauts on board, is in a low enough
> orbit to be affected by the Earth's gravitational pull."

British science journalists don't know anything about science. It isn't
just a problem with the BBC - all the quality newspapers are stuck with
science journalists who make this sort of mistake.

I've no reason to suppose that American science journalists are much
better - even the Scientific American used to get scientists to write
its articles, rather than trsuting their in-house journalists.

Dutch science journalists do a great deal better, but you have to learn
dutch to appreciate them.

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Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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