Inaccuracy in reporting astronomy and science Options

[As old as Voyage...]

I have just watched the BBC's report on the newly created 3D map of dark matter using Hubble data; and it made my heart sink.

I applaud the BBC for giving airtime to such discoveries, but for such a respected organisation their research was awful.

It's no wonder the vast majority of people are either bewildered or disinterested the the universe as a whole when the facts they are given are completely wrong.

It's a shame that tonight 60 million or so people in the UK and many other people around the world were told Hubble shone a beam of light out into the depths of the universe and studied how it was bent by the gravity of dark matter billions of light years away!

And this was a report from the BBCs science correspondant!

I remain downhearted that perhaps the most important story of the week was reported in such a shoddy manner.

Does anyone else feel space is being let down by TV coverage?

[ElkGroveDan]

This one's not TV but I though it deserved notice:

Telegraph U.K.
Broken wheel reveals water on Mars

By Nic Fleming, Science Correspondent, Last Updated: 1:59am BST 23/05/2007

.... Spirit, and Opportunity, its twin, have been sending back information and images from the surface of Mars for more than three years. They were only expected to be there for three months when their missions started in 2004....

[Stu]

They were only expected to be there for three months when their missions started in 2004....

Easy mistake to make; the poor lad obviously didn't know that the final design review removed the little R2D2 rockets from the rovers' wheels that were going to blast it back off Mars and bring it back to Earth again...