Guardian Unlimited | Life | Don't dumb me down

Ben Goldacre routinely criticizes the media about science reporting. This week is particularly harsh: "And humanities graduates in the media, who suspect themselves to be intellectuals, desperately need to reinforce the idea that science is nonsense: because they've denied themselves access to the most significant developments in the history of western thought for 200 years, and secretly, deep down, they're angry with themselves over that."