realthog: (corrupted science)
realthog ([personal profile] realthog) wrote2009-01-17 09:24 am

interview topics


I heard last night from Michio Kaku with his list of topics we're likely to cover when he interviews me tonight about my book Corrupted Science for his radio programme
Science Fantastic:

1) Fraudulent Scientists

          Piltdown man

          Tobacco lobby

          South Korean clone experiments

 

2) Seeing what they wanted to see

          Pons and Fleishman

 

3) Military Madness

          CIA’s investigation into occult

 

4) The one true book

          Creationism

 

5) Ideology trumps science

          Lysenko, Hitler

 

 

6) The political corruption of science

          Bush’s policies

That's quite a range of stuff to discuss, so my guess is we won't cover all of it. Still, it'll be fun trying.

Now to spend the day swotting . . .


[identity profile] quietselkie.livejournal.com 2009-01-17 03:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Men who stare at goats!!!!

Sounds like fun.

[identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com 2009-01-17 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)

Perhaps not so much for the goats.

[identity profile] quietselkie.livejournal.com 2009-01-17 03:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Hahahahahaha!

See, this is what makes you a good editor. I meant, but did not say, the interview topics sound like fun. I lack precision.

[identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com 2009-01-17 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)

"you a good editor"

Please tell all your wealthy publishing friends this.

[identity profile] fledgist.livejournal.com 2009-01-17 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Being bored to death, you mean? Or having to deal with generals who think they can develop the ability to walk through walls?

[identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com 2009-01-17 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)

"Or having to deal with generals who think they can develop the ability to walk through walls?"

Can't everyone?

[identity profile] fledgist.livejournal.com 2009-01-17 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I've never developed the ability. A gentleman, now an Anglican bishop, once accused me of the ability of being in two places at once, but that was because he drove a slow car and I was fleeter of foot in my youth than I am now.
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[identity profile] fledgist.livejournal.com 2009-01-18 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
Which two? His becoming a bishop, or my once being young?

[identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com 2009-01-18 03:20 am (UTC)(link)

"A gentleman, now an Anglican bishop"

Aren't the two incompatible?

[identity profile] fledgist.livejournal.com 2009-01-18 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
His manners were always impeccable.