Comments on: Green Monsters: Instilling Fear In Children

By: coolandcalm

coolandcalm — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:27:11 +0000

My current pet hate is the ads about smoking. ‘I’m scared my mummy’s going to die’ type ads with mum having a crafty fag in the garden and a tear-stained child looking through the window. Grrrrrr.
If even secondhand smoke kills then we don’t have to worry about rainforests because we’ll all be DEAD next year.

By: Grande Finale

Grande Finale — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:17:02 +0000

I don’t believe any of this………but will someone take that Dalek out of the wardrobe before I go to bed ?

By: chenier

chenier — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:58:12 +0000

‘Though the research is still incomplete’

Ok; when they’ve finished that particular piece of research we can go on to the interesting question of why reporters should feel an overwhelming desire to write an article about a piece of research which has not even been finished yet, much less survived the process of peer review and made it into published form.

My research on that aspect suggests that journalists in search of a pet theory have no grasp of the concept of evidence itself, much less the notion of weighing evidence to formulate a hypothesis.

With journalists it’s the other way around; have a pet theory and then go in search of a few soundbites which may, to the credulous, sound as if there is some form of reasoning going on here.

There isn’t, but what the hell! They are only journalists…

By: sammy J

sammy J — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:44:32 +0000

There was always a wolf under MY bed. If I find out it was my ma that put him there, well there’ll be trouble!