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Article: Where a heretic prescribes, Nature derides
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 6, 1994
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 1994 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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IMAGINE trying to perform a biological dissection of a rat with
a garden spade. The mental picture you have formed (my apologies if
you're reading this over breakfast) provides a pretty good model
for what happens to a complex scientific controversy when subjected
to the blunt instrument of television. The best you're likely to
end up with is a series of bloody chunks, trailing unanswered
questions like . . . well, I won't pursue the analogy, as I'm
starting to feel a bit queasy myself.
This isn't to say that the exercise is entirely pointless, just
that it's worth keeping in mind that television is an unscientific
medium. It can be a brilliant explicator of secure truths, but it
doesn't ...
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