Not me personally. I am referring to the latest reality television show where would be polticians go through a process of elimination to find who the general public would chose as a candidate, rather than party machinery.
Why is this relevant to scepticism? Well, because one of the most popular contestants (she made the final two) was a woman with a single issue - ban mobile phone masts because they give you cancer and the rest. And the public voted for her in droves.
Full marks to the program makers though, because every time I saw her rant again about the "proof" of the health risk of phone masts the compere followed with comment that he had to make it clear to the audience that those were here opinions only and not supported by the body of research on the subject.
So it goes to show people are gullible and there is much work to be done by sceptics making people confront the evidence.
Why is this relevant to scepticism? Well, because one of the most popular contestants (she made the final two) was a woman with a single issue - ban mobile phone masts because they give you cancer and the rest. And the public voted for her in droves.
Full marks to the program makers though, because every time I saw her rant again about the "proof" of the health risk of phone masts the compere followed with comment that he had to make it clear to the audience that those were here opinions only and not supported by the body of research on the subject.
So it goes to show people are gullible and there is much work to be done by sceptics making people confront the evidence.
