This damaging culture of evidence abuse is partly born of the staggering under-representation of science in the House of Commons.
An analytical insider's account of how processes within the BBC shape the representation of science, it is lucid, elegant and insightful.
FELICE FRANKEL Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 2, 2012 The writer, a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, teaches and advises on the visual representation of science and engineering.
Sci Fi's graphic look was dank and oppressive, its programming was totally recycled and, Ms. Hammer said, "it was very male, a very boy representation of science fiction".
Prompted by reaction to this tweet and a debate in the House of Commons on the representation of science and engineering in the media, I asked a researcher to look at the headline interviewees and their occupations as listed on the website for the programme.
This, however, may be as it should since pseudoscience often involves a representation of science as a closed and finished doctrine rather than as a methodology for open-ended inquiry.
This is particularly true in cases in which the terrible media representation of science overlaps with terrible media representations of gender and sexuality.
The writer and critic Kim Newman went further, explaining in a 2003 television documentary on Nigel Kneale's career that he believed Quatermass to be not only a representation of science but of humanity itself.
This has a better geographic and thematic coverage than other sources, meaning a better representation of science worldwide [ 5].
Yet, as all agree, the representation of science in the courtroom occurs under rules that are crucially different from those of the scientific workplace.
