Tuesday, March 25, 2008

They said it on Radio 4

Yesterday it was reported on the news on Radio 4 that mice cells had been cloned and used in the successful treatment of Parkinson's (in mice). The scientists used skin cells from the tail of the animal to generate customised neurons or as the report on Radio 4 said, 'Cells can be tailor made.'

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Today on Radio 4 news the reporter talking about protests against the Chinese Olympics said, 'The woman protestor was roughed up by Greek police.'
Roughed up? Purlease. This is Radio 4. We don't have people roughed up on Radio 4: they are man-handled or forcibly moved on. But definitely not roughed up. I suppose all the proper reporters were on Bank Holiday leave.

Standards, BBC, standards.

2 comments:

CherryPie said...

Now the first part of the post makes me think of the book Flowers for Algenon!!! the book made me cry!

Welshcakes Limoncello said...

Must have been!