Bit more on the "Science Media Centre"

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Posted bit about this before, but folks really do need to grasp the web of vested interests that really "push" things behind the scenes, push stuff over people like us, for example

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiked_(magazine)

Go read that Wiki article on Spiked magazine, then note the very interestign web of connections you can make from that...

Science Media Center whose director is...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiona_Fox_(UK_press_officer)

Who was a reporter for...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Marxism

Living Marxism, a magazine whose point of view has been described by The Guardian as "extreme corporate libertarianism" and

Living Marxism got successfully sued to hell and back for

LM, an acronym for Living Marxism, closed after losing a libel case brought against it by the broadcasting corporation ITN. The case centered on LM featuring an article by Thomas Deichmann called 'The Picture that Fooled the World'[3] that alleged that the photographer who took the famous ITN picture of Bosnian Muslims behind a barbed-wire fence in a Bosnian Serb-run camp during the Yugoslav war gave the false impression that this was a Nazi-style concentration camp. Deichmann claimed that it was really the photographer who was in a fenced-in area and that it was a transit camp.

ITN won and the ensuing award and costs, estimated to be around 1 million, bankrupted LM and its publishers

Living Marxism then became...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiked_(magazine)

StanceThe magazine focuses on issues of freedom and state control, science and technology. It seeks to counter positions such as multiculturalism, environmentalism and what they see as a recent trend in Western foreign policy: humanitarian intervention.[5]

A prominent focus of the magazine is the defence of the freedom of speech. Spiked says that it opposes all forms of censorship, by the state or otherwise. Its writers call for a repeal of libel,[6] hate speech[7] and incitement[8][9] laws. They have criticized laws targeted at pedophiles.[10] Spiked also regularly critique risk society; animal rights; political correctness; and environmentalism. As regards the latter, a particular Spiked target has been what they see as "exaggerated" and "hysterical" interpretations of the scientific consensus on global warming.[11]

Other notable positions of Spiked are their opposition to the post-9/11 invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and Western aid for or interference in developing nations in general.[12][13][14]

Spiked has been described by journalists such as Johann Hari and George Monbiot of pursuing a right-wing and pro-corporate agenda under a guise of being left-wing. Some have said that Spiked's stance has more in common with free-market libertarians than with the left

Interesting, hm? And htey sure don't sound liek what I'd regard as Communists or Socialists in the "concerned for social justice/compassionate" sense more like the "hard core"
(and sorry to disavow folk who may have been brought up to think different, but Socialist/Communist does NOT automatically = evil heartless SOB bureacratic, Stalinistc monster, k? I'm a socialist because I care about *people* not *profit*. I just know alas that the Human Condition means no system we Humans make will ever not be a bloody screw up! As Churchill rightly said: "Democracy is just the best of a bad bunch" )

Then, form Livign Marxism you have this unusual guy
http://www.lobbywatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=39

And lets not forget this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scienc...Marxism_and_the_Revolutionary_Communist_Party

Controversy over links with Living Marxism and the Revolutionary Communist PartyDirector Fiona Fox is a former member of the Revolutionary Communist Party, a former contributor to its magazine Living Marxism and a current contributor to Spiked, a website set up by former members of the RCP. Her qualifications to lead the Science Media Centre have been challenged as she has no scientific qualifications and comes from an extreme ideological background

please be aware of such, when you see media articles..and understand how bad UK journalism has got...

go do some Googling for your own, find the links, note who's linked ot who and note the over all bent of how SPiked etc view people, the world and so on...and make your own conclusions...