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Originally Posted by Splum
You are fucking kidding me you just linked to The Guardian news commentary column. You do realize it is one of the most liberal "news" outlets in the world dont you? Thats like me using a FOX news EDITORIAL link to get my point across. 
PS there are facts outside of your little liberal bubble
If you doubt how liberal that rag is check this out: http://www.reportingwars.com/guardian_bbc.php |
Wow. You're really dense, aren't you? Commentary or not, it's referring to an existing documentary. Or are you insinuating that The Guardian lied about the content of Durkin's documentary?
The guy has a history of misrepresenting the people he quotes as well as more or less straight out fabricating stories and representing them as fact.
http://news.independent.co.uk/enviro...cle2326210.ece
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Martin Durkin, for his part, achieved notoriety when his previous series on the environment for the channel, called Against Nature , was roundly condemned by the Independent Television Commission for misleading contributors on the purpose of the programmes, and for editing four interviewees in a way that "distorted or mispresented their known views".
Channel 4 was forced to issue a humiliating apology. But it seems to have forgiven Mr Durkin and sees no need to make special checks on the accuracy of the programme. For his part, the film-maker accepts the charge of misleading contributors, but describes the verdict of distortion as "complete tosh."
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http://news.independent.co.uk/enviro...cle2347526.ece
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It was the television programme that set out to show that most of the world's climate scientists are misleading us when they say humanity is heating up the Earth by emitting carbon dioxide. And The Great Global Warming Swindle, screened by Channel 4 on Thursday night, convinced many viewers that it is indeed untrue that the gas is to blame for global warming.
But now the programme - and the channel - is facing a serious challenge to its own credibility after one of the most distinguished scientists that it featured said his views had been "grossly distorted" by the film, and made it clear that he believed human pollution did warm the climate.
Professor Carl Wunsch, professor of physical oceanography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said he had been "completely misrepresented" by the programme, and "totally misled" on its content. He added that he is considering making a formal complaint.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_...on_director%29
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The 1998 documentary on breast implants was shown on Channel 4 only after it had been rejected for broadcast by the BBC whose in-house researcher concluded that Durkin had ignored a large body of evidence contradicting his claims in the program.
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Yeah, this Durkin fellow sounds exactly like the type of guy I'd have no trouble believing. He's also not a scientist, as you claimed earlier.