Everyone with a firm party allegiance is convinced that the BBC is biased against their party - it's one of the reasons I trust the Beeb, or at least trust them more than any other major news source. Have you got any alternate reports of what Klegg said handy? Are there any errors in the direct quotation (well, except the 'affect' for 'effect' which could as easily be his speechwriter as their reporter)? If not, he's still guilty as charged.
And yeah, the Greens have always had an anti-science problem, I knew that from back when I was a FoE member in the mid-nineties. But hey, after all those times I've voted Lib Dem in spite of them being the most thoroughly wrong party on Europe, voting for the party most clueless on science won't be that much harder a bone to swallow. And again, Luddite as they are, it's not as if they're that much worse than the current mob (http://amuchmoreexotic.livejournal.com/376286.html), (see also all the cosying up to creationists on Labour's watch). The main reason I had more faith in the Lib Dems on science was Lembit Opik's asteroid defence plans, but I can't see that getting very far under the current leadership.
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Date: 2009-09-22 12:55 pm (UTC)And yeah, the Greens have always had an anti-science problem, I knew that from back when I was a FoE member in the mid-nineties. But hey, after all those times I've voted Lib Dem in spite of them being the most thoroughly wrong party on Europe, voting for the party most clueless on science won't be that much harder a bone to swallow. And again, Luddite as they are, it's not as if they're that much worse than the current mob (http://amuchmoreexotic.livejournal.com/376286.html), (see also all the cosying up to creationists on Labour's watch). The main reason I had more faith in the Lib Dems on science was Lembit Opik's asteroid defence plans, but I can't see that getting very far under the current leadership.