As regular readers will know, I am not a passionate aficionado
for the BBC. However there are one or two jewels in the dung-heap and one of
them is the Radio 4 programme Scarlett
Moffatt Want to Believe, see: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p08c6f5x.
This programme covers UFO's, the paranormal and conspiracy theories fairly respectfully
and honestly, unlike nearly all of the rest of the mainstream media. Scarlett
Moffatt, a former reality TV star, has very similar viewpoints to myself and
tests them in every programme in a debate against her husband Scott who is the
ultimate skeptic.
See here for
essential background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2020/05/scarlett-moffatt-on-loose-women.html.
The series is of course desperately inviting criticism, in
the same way I do. I personally don't mind criticism that is civil and
rational, but of course it rarely is. A few days ago a protest was lodged by
two prominent members of the criterati, Dara O'Briain and David Baddiel. O'Briain
is an astronomer and the ultimate co-host-never-to-be-a-host of Stargazing Live. He Tweeted: "Trying not to be depressed today that
while the BBC don't seem to want to make any more Stargazing Live, they will pay Scarlett Moffatt to make a podcast
about how she doesn't believe in the Moon landings." Actually I would
have enjoyed Stargazing Live had it
not been for Prof. Brian Cox hosting it and I think it's a good idea that I
hope the Beeb will one day continue with a non-obnoxious presenter. However,
the point is that O'Briain objects to the corporation producing content that he
doesn't agree with. This is even though conspiracy nuts pay the licence fee too
you know, Dara! (Well, those of us with any sense of decency do not). Really,
I'm pleased Dara O'Briain has decided to stop playing the Coxxer's beta-bitch
and is making a stand in his own right, even if I disagree with his stance.
He's been in the shadow of that silky soy-grown hair and in the glare of those polished
shiny white teeth for far too long. Source: https://news.yahoo.com/dara-o-briain-condemns-bbc-131041955.html.
More serious is the position taken by the Jewish comedian
David Baddiel who has recently been studying holocaust denial and has made a
documentary about it, see: https://www.bitchute.com/video/DVjiHdzkk494/.
I think this has influenced his views on the conspirasphere in general. He said
of Scarlett and Scott's show: "I
listened to it. There's a fair bit of Scarlett saying, basically, 'I just want
people to be allowed to question what's handed down to them, and make their own
minds up.' That was something I heard quite a lot during the making of this
(his holocaust documentary)... I too think she's a very nice person. But there's
a reason why beliefs such as the moon landings were faked and that the world is
secretly ruled by a shadowy elite called the Iluminati lead on to very bad
places." His point is that once we start questioning the official
story on some subjects it is an inevitable pipeline towards embracing
falsehoods about how particular racial groups are evil and so we end up wanting
to exterminate them. Absolutely not! This is the kind of nonsense that led to
David Icke being cancelled, see: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/08/david-icke-portal.html.
Is Baddiel stating that free access to information, questioning official
pronouncements and making up our own mind is a bad thing? I think if we're
forbidden from doing so then that
leads to very bad places. As it happens, Scarlett
Moffatt Wants to Believe has now come to the end of its first
thirteen-episode season. I hope Scarlett and Scott return for another series.
See here for more background:
https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2017/03/cern-disproves-ghosts.html.
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