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        Like Kris Krishtalka reporting on vrtpaleo, I emailed NBC Friday
evening protesting their presentation "Origins of Man" as science.  I
implored them to post a disclaimer that it was science, pointing out that
the schools and colleges spend lots of hours trying to inform people how to
understand science just to have programs like this work in the opposite
direction.

Today I received a canned reply thanking me for my response but suggesting
that I really should write to the producers.  In other words, they seemed
to take no responsibility for airing the program--it was presented to them,
they bought it, and it wasn't really any of their business what it
contained.  That's a cop-out, and a cheap one at that.

So keep demanding that they represent science correctly--not fairly, but
correctly.  That program on Man's Origins had virtually no science in it,
and we need to tell NBC that it did not, that it was a disservice to the
viewing public, and that we expect an appropriate acknowledgement or we
will move to other means, such as writing sponsors of all NBC programs
telling them we will boycott their products and NBC.  Perhaps if enough of
us do that, we may get a little attention.


Send an email protesting this biased program to online@nbc.com and to the
producers bcvideo@interport.net, and to your local NBC station (addresses
etc. available on the NBC Web page) telling them why it is not scientific
and that you will inform their sponsors of the deceit pawned onto the
American (and probably the rest of the world eventually) public.

The NBC Web Page is at http://www.nbc.com/

Jere H. Lipps, Professor and Director
Department of Integrative Biology and
Museum of Paleontology
University of California
Berkeley, California 94720 USA

Voice:  510-642-9006.  Fax:  510-642-1822.
Internet:  jlipps@ucmp1.berkeley.edu
WWW:  http://ucmp1.berkeley.edu