I’ve blogged before about how climategate’s final act, in which three separate investigations largely exonerated the scientists concerned and reaffirmed the climate science, was under-reported by the New Zealand media compared to the explosion of coverage at the start. Well, TVNZ’s Media7 show hosted by Russell Brown set out to find out just how much […]
MoreUsually I need to trawl the letters pages of the country’s newspapers and magazines to find examples of crazy science letters to the editor. This letter came direct to my inbox. The use of different fonts and colours is a fair warning of what to expect should you choose to read on… I wonder what […]
MoreSir Peter Gluckman, the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor, made a reasonable impact with his lecture on climate change delivered at Victoria University last week. A few media outlets covered the event running an NZPA article and climate skeptics were furious, urging Prime Minister John Key to “rein in” his science advisor or sack him. […]
MoreThis one contains so many inaccuracies, exaggerations and irrational thoughts its clear someone isn’t thinking straight in the deep south… From The Press, May 11th
MoreThis one’s short, but not so sweet. From yesterday’s Dominion Post letters page.
MoreAs far as I can tell, this is the first New Zealand editorial from a mainstream media outlet to reference the University of East Anglia inquiry into Dr Phil Jones and his colleagues. From Saturday’s Gisborne Herald…
MoreWhen I was reporting for the Herald on convoluted and long-running stories like the dismantling of Telecom’s monopoly on the phone and internet market, I felt obliged to cover each major phase of the story through to completion. It seems the same isn’t true of the New Zealand media in general when it comes to […]
MoreIt’s been climate sceptic central in the Timaru Herald’s letter pages this week. Malcolm Rollinson sounds rational enough in this letter published today, but the manipulation of the truth, twisting of facts and plain distortion of what has transpired in the wake of Climategate puts him firmly in the crazy science letter writing category.
MoreI’m all for freedom of speech and diversity of opinion. But some of the letters I read in the letters pages of our newspapers really are written by crazy people. Science-related subjects especially seem to bring out the nutters. I read a lot of letters in the country’s newspapers so I’m beginning a series that […]
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