I don't believe it. I was about to raise the spectre of "volcanogate". I
thought I had better check to see if it already exists.
Google found "about 2,560" hits.
One reads:
"This volcanogate scandal threatens to destroy the fine reputation that
atmospheric scientists had nearly ruined themselves already."
MK
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Aren't 'ash deniers' pub owners who deliberately flout the smoking ban?
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I like the phrase "ash sceptics" to describe Jenkins et al.
Given the piece in the Daily Mail, we also need a category of "ash
deniers".
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Sent: 28 April 2010 11:06
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Aspects of this conversation are developing into an interesting debate.
Did anyone see this blog post by Mark Henderson last week on what he's
dubbed "Jenkins' Law"? (the predictability of a "certain breed of
columnist" to try health and safety gone mad over sci risk stories)
http://timesonline.typepad.com/science/2010/04/volcanic-ash-kneejerk-rea
ctio
ns-and-jenkins-law.html
Alice
On 28 April 2010 09:40, Bob Ward <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> It's easy to take snooty potshots at the Daily Mail and to make
sweeping
> statements instead of offering insight or analysis. Are you also going
> to accuse people who buy the Daily Mail of being stupid?
>
> Personally, I have a lot of respect for the Mike Hanlon and Fiona
MacRae
> who write about science for the Daily Mail, and the environment
> correspondent, David Derbyshire - they write for a wider a much bigger
> readership than their counterparts on the so-called quality
newspapers.
>
> I notice that the article on ash was written by Sean Poulter, whose
> byline usually proclaims that he is consumer affairs correspondent.
He's
> usually called upon to provide the anti-scientific view on issues such
> as GM and mobile phones.
>
> May I suggest that it would be better and more effective to champion
the
> writing of the specialists like Fiona, Mike and David rather than
> condemining all of the journalists who work on the newspaper?
>
>
> Bob Ward
>
> Policy and Communications Director
> Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
> London School of Economics and Political Science
> Houghton Street
> London WC2A 2AE
>
> http://www.lse.ac.uk/grantham
>
> Tel. +44 (0) 20 7106 1236
> Mob. +44 (0) 7811 320346
>
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