Sunday, 30 January 2011

Sir Paul Nurse's big boo boo

Telegraph
"Presumably, though, being as Sir Paul Nurse got a Nobel prize in genetics that makes it OK? I mean, he’s a “scientist”, right. And President of the Royal Society. And – did I mention this before? – a Nobel prizewinner. So this must by definition mean that even when he’s wrong, he’s right?

Er, no. Actually not. Sir Paul Nurse, despite his Nobel prize, his presidency of the Royal Society and his PhD in whatever from the famous, world-renowned and much-loved University of East Anglia, is quite capable of making really basic, idiot’s-level mistakes about “climate science.” As he has just demonstrated, very publicly, on a BBC science documentary."

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