Prof Brian Cox gets a kicking in The Guardian

[GeoffW1 (Geoff)]

Hi,

For your interest. Dr Henry Gee takes issue with Prof Cox on a few things, and promotes his new book while he's at it. He admits he's jealous though

http://www.theguardian.com/science/b...w-of-evolution

Cheers

[Renato1 (Renato)]

Originally Posted by GeoffW1

Hi,

For your interest. Dr Henry Gee takes issue with Prof Cox on a few things, and promotes his new book while he's at it. He admits he's jealous though

http://www.theguardian.com/science/b...w-of-evolution

Cheers

Dr Henry Gee says,
"From the point of view of a crow, a human-made TV programme makes no sense at all and therefore has no value."

Were I to rate the opinions of the entities in question, I'd probably rate those of Prof Cox and the crow ahead of Dr. Gee's.
Regards,
Renato

[narky (Sam)]

Originally Posted by GeoffW1

Hi,

For your interest. Dr Henry Gee takes issue with Prof Cox on a few things, and promotes his new book while he's at it. He admits he's jealous though

http://www.theguardian.com/science/b...w-of-evolution

Cheers

If the truth be told I'm sure it is mostly said tongue in cheek, but I agree that whilst we are unique it'd be foolish to see ourselves too highly above others. Honestly, I dont see any harm in suggesting "if we're so great, why haven't we gone futher"? I think that's exactly the sort of rhetoric we should be pushing. Rather than saying "wow, look how much we've achieved", I'd rather say "wow, look how much we might".

[julianh72 (Julian)]

Did everyone see Brian Cox's pedantic critique of "The Galaxy Song" at the recent O2 Arena Monty Python (Mostly) Live show (probably still available on SBS catch-up), followed up by being well and truly put in his place by Stephen Hawking?

Brilliant! (Who says scientists have no sense of humour?)

Watch it here - watch to the end:
Galaxy Song - Monty Python Live in O2 Arena.: http://youtu.be/fqBThWK8rqE

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

nice one Geoff, I haven't seen the tv show but can sense where it is at from the article. and yes I think i'm siding with Dr Gee on the matter of evolutionary biology, on matters of particle physics I will heed Brian's advice...

[Camelopardalis (Dunk)]

Nothing more than nit picking and self-promotion, those grapes must be really sour

[Amaranthus (Barry)]

Henry Gee has problems...
http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress....-anti-science/

[Poita (Peter)]

I haven't read his book, but the Guardian article makes a lot of good points, and is well written, and seems good natured enough.
Thanks for sharing!