Anyone who relies on the popular media for science information is doomed to ignorance. There is *very* little good science in the popular media -- R4's In our Time is one of the few intelligent programmes left (it often covers scientific subjects). THe Beeb has dumbed down appallingly over the last few decades; much of what it, and the newspapers, produces is just plain wrong. Only this week the Beeb's Costing the Earth perpetuated the "glass flows" urban myth and gave credence to the "tired light" hypothesis (the producer promises me that corrections will be broadcast in next week's programme).

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Stephen