Alice Roberts Quotes
The paleo diet is utter nonsense - it is such pseudoscience.
Knapton, Sarah. "Paleo diet is 'utter nonsense', says Prof Alice Roberts." The Telegraph, Telegraph Media Group, 9 June 2015.
Huntington, one of the better known political scientists had been nominated for admission as a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences. He was generally considered a shoe-in. However, some of his research had used extensive mathematical analysis to prove his conclusions. Lang a gadfly had actually read Huntington’s peer reviewed published Journal articles and found that the mathematics was very faulty, both in its application and execution. He opposed Huntington’s election and proceeded to present Huntington’s mathematics and conclusions to the members, who were themselves the best scientists of many different disciplines. They all realized that the Huntington work was incorrect. Huntington argued that as a Political Scientist he was using mathematics as a way of conceptually illustrating his points and not in a rigorous manner. Huntington was not elected to the academy. Lang frequently would take scientific evidence offered in Congressional Hearings, analyze it and then send a package to the media and members of Congress showing the errors. See {508154} for his cutting style with poor science.
O’Reilly claimed that across the United States schools were driving the celebration of Christmas out of the schools and that some schools had forced students to sing Silent Night with new, less religious words. Letterman’s instinct was right. O’Reilly, not known for his carful research of what he stated, had taken a single incident and turned it into a alleged national attack on Christianity.
In all countries, many politicians play to this human weakness and tend to alarm the public. It is harder for the body politic to believe a positive narrative even if true; easy to believe a negative narrative even when false and deliberately exaggerated.
Alice May Roberts FRSB (born 19 May 1973) is an English biological anthropologist, biologist, television presenter and author. Since 2012 she has been Professor of the Public Engagement in Science at the University of Birmingham. Since 2019, she has been President of the charity Humanists UK, which campaigns for state secularism and for "a tolerant world where rational thinking and kindness prevail".
