And 2012 doomsday crap reaches Pakistan... ~ Irtiqa
The doomsday scenario comes up regularly. I think the problem often occurs when pseudoscience gets in the way of communication. To some extent many scientists have proved to be less articulate than some of the softer science promoters. In some ways communication by twitter can be virtuous as it cuts out metaphor, adjectives and adverbs.
While one often takes some joy in the fall of certain teleevangelists, there is also a worrying trend for some of the harder sciences to be made more 'accessible'. This usually leads to 'fashionable' science - or even coffee-table science. I'm not sure my blog will be seen in fashionable coffee houses - certainly not in some European capitals!
Apr 15, 2011, 4:16:00 PM
ARY is a gone case. It's the same Chanel which showed Dr Shahid Masood's End of Times (heavily borrowed from Harun Yahya) and The Arrivals (the most absurd documentary series I've ever seen).
I so wish we could have science programs. Even PTV in 80s used to show Comos in Urdu dubbing.
If we can have a program on astrology, why not on science. Is anyone listening...
Apr 16, 2011, 4:59:00 AM
I wrote in my comments several posts ago that media is business, not service. It is there to make money...nothing else. It will only show what people like to see. If people and society has an infrastructure that is conducive for the propagation of science, media will follow suit. It is sorry state of affairs that scientific thought is in shambles in Pakistan. Completly ignoring science and rationality in their lives, muslims initiated their self destruction mode a couple of centuries ago and is following an accelerated course. We are a small group of people who seek change but are vastly outnumbered by antagonists.
A. K. Gardezi:
Apr 16, 2011, 8:46:00 AM
And 2012 doomsday crap reaches Pakistan... ~ Irtiqa
The doomsday scenario comes up regularly. I think the problem often occurs when pseudoscience gets in the way of communication. To some extent many scientists have proved to be less articulate than some of the softer science promoters. In some ways communication by twitter can be virtuous as it cuts out metaphor, adjectives and adverbs.
While one often takes some joy in the fall of certain teleevangelists, there is also a worrying trend for some of the harder sciences to be made more 'accessible'. This usually leads to 'fashionable' science - or even coffee-table science. I'm not sure my blog will be seen in fashionable coffee houses - certainly not in some European capitals!
Apr 15, 2011, 4:16:00 PM
ARY is a gone case. It's the same Chanel which showed Dr Shahid Masood's End of Times (heavily borrowed from Harun Yahya) and The Arrivals (the mo
st absurd documentary series I've ever seen).
I so wish we could have science programs. Even PTV in 80s used to show Comos in Urdu dubbing.
If we can have a program on astrology, why not on science. Is anyone listening...
Apr 16, 2011, 4:59:00 AM
I wrote in my comments several posts ago that media is business, not service. It is there to make money...nothing else. It will only show what people like to see. If people and society has an infrastructure that is conducive for the propagation of science, media will follow suit. It is sorry state of affairs that scientific thought is in shambles in Pakistan. Completly ignoring science and rationality in their lives, muslims initiated their self destruction mode a couple of centuries ago and is following an accelerated course. We are a small group of people who seek change but are vastly outnumbered by antagonists.
A. K. Gardezi:
Apr 16, 2011, 8:46:00 AM