Conservative blogger fights back against BBC

Spectator : James Delingpole, a conservative writer, blogger, and climate-change skeptic, was interviewed last week for a BBC TV documentary called Science Under Attack. His interviewer was Paul Nurse, a Nobel laureate and the current president of Britain’s Royal Society. From Delingpole’s point of view, which he describes in a recent blog post for Spectator magazine, the interview was a setup. He writes

Using a crude but effective mixture of appeal to authority (“Sir Paul Nurse, Nobel Laureate, President of the Royal Society, speaks from on high”), judicious editing, and a cynical, dishonest narrative in which climate-change sceptics are bracketed with violent anti-GM protestors and people who think Aids isn’t caused by HIV, this programme sought not to understand the science behind global warming but merely to smear those who dissent from the true faith.