How the BBC got it wrong
The BBC "Expert" told the news presenter, condescendingly, that science was wonderful because now we had discovered this it could affect her life, but before we discovered it, it couldn't - that - he said - was the power of science.
Tell that to James Watt or Richard Trevitick, who invented the steam engine without knowing the underlying science, or Darwin, who worked out evolution without knowing about DNA.
It makes me wonder what you have to do to be a BBC Expert - it certainly isn't understand your subject.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
