Dave Fernig
@davefernig.bsky.social
Biochemist, views entirely unconsidered and my own.
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The worst you can accuse Panorama of doing is making a misleading edit – and I’d dispute that! – to make *a point that was true*.
The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.
The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.
Tory culture spox demanding the BBC "grovel" to Trump is baffling. Who is this supposed to chime with?
Just a bizarre line that no one who doesn't use X would ever think.
Just a bizarre line that no one who doesn't use X would ever think.
November 11, 2025 at 8:54 AM
The worst you can accuse Panorama of doing is making a misleading edit – and I’d dispute that! – to make *a point that was true*.
The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.
The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.
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the fun thing about the BBC story is that I can't actually read about it for more than couple of minutes at a time because it makes me feel too insane :)
The worst you can accuse Panorama of doing is making a misleading edit – and I’d dispute that! – to make *a point that was true*.
The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.
The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.
Tory culture spox demanding the BBC "grovel" to Trump is baffling. Who is this supposed to chime with?
Just a bizarre line that no one who doesn't use X would ever think.
Just a bizarre line that no one who doesn't use X would ever think.
November 11, 2025 at 9:53 AM
the fun thing about the BBC story is that I can't actually read about it for more than couple of minutes at a time because it makes me feel too insane :)
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Well, this is quite a serious allegation. I do hope the BBC shows true impartiality and investigate whether or not some of its Board members are systemically biased. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
BBC board member with Tory links ‘led charge’ in systemic bias claims, say insiders
Sources say Robbie Gibb amplified criticisms of Trump, Gaza and trans rights coverage, and had ‘a lot of oxygen in the room’
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Well, this is quite a serious allegation. I do hope the BBC shows true impartiality and investigate whether or not some of its Board members are systemically biased. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
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This feels like a reasonable time to share an article from The Telegraph from 2023, which certainly makes it seem that Matt Hancock knew that I was interviewed to appear on BBC Question Time (how?) and seemed to attempt to intervene to prevent my appearance.
Should politicians…
Should politicians…
November 11, 2025 at 9:36 AM
This feels like a reasonable time to share an article from The Telegraph from 2023, which certainly makes it seem that Matt Hancock knew that I was interviewed to appear on BBC Question Time (how?) and seemed to attempt to intervene to prevent my appearance.
Should politicians…
Should politicians…
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Ah, Burton-on-Trent.
So sketchy, even us Derby boys wouldn’t go for a night out there…
So sketchy, even us Derby boys wouldn’t go for a night out there…
Reform Councillor Peter Mason from Burton has been forced to apologise for social media posts which included: “What a surprise a statue of a fat arsed black woman."
November 11, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Ah, Burton-on-Trent.
So sketchy, even us Derby boys wouldn’t go for a night out there…
So sketchy, even us Derby boys wouldn’t go for a night out there…
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PEACHES! GET THE RED SHOES!
November 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
PEACHES! GET THE RED SHOES!
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After ascertaining that she wasn’t trending because she was dead, I read her Tweet. Just in case you hadn’t yet, here it is.
Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
November 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
After ascertaining that she wasn’t trending because she was dead, I read her Tweet. Just in case you hadn’t yet, here it is.
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1/3 Guerre d'Ukraine | 09/11/25
Secteurs :
🌐 Kupiansk🔹U251109-1705
🌐 Zarichne-Serednie🔹U251109-1711
🌐 Lyman-Siversk🔹U251109-1716
🌐 Bakhmut-Chasiv Yar🔹U251109-1721
#UkraineRussianWar #GuerreEnUkraine
Secteurs :
🌐 Kupiansk🔹U251109-1705
🌐 Zarichne-Serednie🔹U251109-1711
🌐 Lyman-Siversk🔹U251109-1716
🌐 Bakhmut-Chasiv Yar🔹U251109-1721
#UkraineRussianWar #GuerreEnUkraine
November 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
1/3 Guerre d'Ukraine | 09/11/25
Secteurs :
🌐 Kupiansk🔹U251109-1705
🌐 Zarichne-Serednie🔹U251109-1711
🌐 Lyman-Siversk🔹U251109-1716
🌐 Bakhmut-Chasiv Yar🔹U251109-1721
#UkraineRussianWar #GuerreEnUkraine
Secteurs :
🌐 Kupiansk🔹U251109-1705
🌐 Zarichne-Serednie🔹U251109-1711
🌐 Lyman-Siversk🔹U251109-1716
🌐 Bakhmut-Chasiv Yar🔹U251109-1721
#UkraineRussianWar #GuerreEnUkraine
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When asked for a response to the criticism for including Mackenzie, the BBC replied only to tell me that he wasn't a live guest
...which was not what I asked
...which was not what I asked
Liverpool FC complain to BBC about Kelvin Mackenzie coverage
Reds bosses said to be furious with inclusion of former S*n editor in piece discussing journalistic standards
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
When asked for a response to the criticism for including Mackenzie, the BBC replied only to tell me that he wasn't a live guest
...which was not what I asked
...which was not what I asked
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Why,
You grave but reckless senators
You grave but reckless senators
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Why,
You grave but reckless senators
You grave but reckless senators
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This is precisely how impartiality is NOT supposed to work.
Michael Prescott was ‘“shocked” that after an hour-long Panorama documentary dealing with Trump and the January 6 insurgency, there was no “similar, balancing” programme about Kamala Harris.’
More read about the machinations between the BBC resignations, the more worrying it becomes
More read about the machinations between the BBC resignations, the more worrying it becomes
The departure of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness means the BBC is leaderless when it needs leadership more than ever. Where are the people at the head of the BBC standing up for it?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 AM
This is precisely how impartiality is NOT supposed to work.
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OTD in 1999 the OSCE conference was in Istanbul. Russia promised to remove our troops from Moldova & Georgia by end of 2002.
We lied. But Ukraine should believe Russia’s promises & negotiate…
We lied. But Ukraine should believe Russia’s promises & negotiate…
November 10, 2025 at 10:41 AM
OTD in 1999 the OSCE conference was in Istanbul. Russia promised to remove our troops from Moldova & Georgia by end of 2002.
We lied. But Ukraine should believe Russia’s promises & negotiate…
We lied. But Ukraine should believe Russia’s promises & negotiate…
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Interesting paragraph from a long tweet just posted by Nick Robinson.
November 10, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Interesting paragraph from a long tweet just posted by Nick Robinson.
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Lest we forget.
November 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Lest we forget.
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Well this is bleak
Govt scraps all electrification investment. Midland Main Line to stay forever diesel Leicester Nottingham Derby Sheffield. Hugely embarrassing and inexplicable
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
UK transport secretary says full electrification of railways ‘not affordable right now’
Heidi Alexander says focus will be on other projects such as HS2
www.ft.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Well this is bleak
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Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
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HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
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Even amidst war and energy terror life goes on. In Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, children can buy cocoa for leaves at a café.
Children's dreams come true despite constant shelling of the city by russians.
🎥: fresh_coffee95 / Center for Countering Disinformation
Children's dreams come true despite constant shelling of the city by russians.
🎥: fresh_coffee95 / Center for Countering Disinformation
November 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Even amidst war and energy terror life goes on. In Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, children can buy cocoa for leaves at a café.
Children's dreams come true despite constant shelling of the city by russians.
🎥: fresh_coffee95 / Center for Countering Disinformation
Children's dreams come true despite constant shelling of the city by russians.
🎥: fresh_coffee95 / Center for Countering Disinformation
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Without DEI, we would only make merit-based hires, like the genius strategist who decided to pick a fight with his boss’s new young wife.
Dominic Cummings has this racialised take on David Lammy
There is an increasingly prevalent kneejerk online rightwing trait to call the presence of any black or Asian person a diversity hire
There is an increasingly prevalent kneejerk online rightwing trait to call the presence of any black or Asian person a diversity hire
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Without DEI, we would only make merit-based hires, like the genius strategist who decided to pick a fight with his boss’s new young wife.
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I joined HMPS in 1995 and retired in 2019. Underpinning every failing in HMPS is AUSTERITY. From Purging experienced staff, overloading operational managers with admin, privatizing works depts and trying to nail jelly to walls. Torys f'd the organisation irreparably. Kudos to those who had to stay.
November 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I joined HMPS in 1995 and retired in 2019. Underpinning every failing in HMPS is AUSTERITY. From Purging experienced staff, overloading operational managers with admin, privatizing works depts and trying to nail jelly to walls. Torys f'd the organisation irreparably. Kudos to those who had to stay.
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"Their Prince promised me millions in my bank account and didnt send anything, nobody has ever been treated this unfairly"
Trump says we are preparing to invade Nigeria. Apparently that’s what voters said they wanted in the exit polls. Trump: “We’re going to do things to Nigeria that Nigeria’s not gonna be happy about. Guns-a-blazin!”
November 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
"Their Prince promised me millions in my bank account and didnt send anything, nobody has ever been treated this unfairly"
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sobering piece by Carl Elliot on missing literature on medical scandals
www.thehastingscenter.org/what-researc...
www.thehastingscenter.org/what-researc...
What Research Scandals? Welcome to the Bioethics Memory Hole : The Hastings Center for Bioethics
It is striking how many notorious cases of abuses of human research subjects go almost entirely unmentioned in the bioethics literature.
www.thehastingscenter.org
November 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
sobering piece by Carl Elliot on missing literature on medical scandals
www.thehastingscenter.org/what-researc...
www.thehastingscenter.org/what-researc...
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Corporate Welfare
Drax receives subsidies for burning wood to produce electricity. £869m last year. £458.6m a year for 2027-2031. UK Govt not taken equity stake.
In 2024, paid £97m dividend, £300m share buyback
Drax electricity is the most expensive. It is the biggest single UK carbon emitter.
Drax receives subsidies for burning wood to produce electricity. £869m last year. £458.6m a year for 2027-2031. UK Govt not taken equity stake.
In 2024, paid £97m dividend, £300m share buyback
Drax electricity is the most expensive. It is the biggest single UK carbon emitter.
Drax power plant to go on earning ‘over £1m a day’ from burning wood pellets
Analysts say Britain’s biggest power plant in line to earn £458.6m a year under new government subsidy contract
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Corporate Welfare
Drax receives subsidies for burning wood to produce electricity. £869m last year. £458.6m a year for 2027-2031. UK Govt not taken equity stake.
In 2024, paid £97m dividend, £300m share buyback
Drax electricity is the most expensive. It is the biggest single UK carbon emitter.
Drax receives subsidies for burning wood to produce electricity. £869m last year. £458.6m a year for 2027-2031. UK Govt not taken equity stake.
In 2024, paid £97m dividend, £300m share buyback
Drax electricity is the most expensive. It is the biggest single UK carbon emitter.
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And this published on the day we learn that the government's granted four more years of massive subsidies to Drax, operator the UK's number one CO2 emitting power plant for burning millions of tonnes more imported wood pellets. 😠
UK Chancellor is considering slashing funding for more energy efficient homes to pay for a reduction in energy bills
It would be **such** a foolish thing to do given the impact well-delivered efficiency has on energy bills, health & well being, fuel poverty
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
It would be **such** a foolish thing to do given the impact well-delivered efficiency has on energy bills, health & well being, fuel poverty
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Reeves considers cut to green levies in effort to reduce cost of energy bills
Exclusive: Chancellor hopes to save up to £170 from average bill but industry insiders say move would be ‘disastrous’
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
And this published on the day we learn that the government's granted four more years of massive subsidies to Drax, operator the UK's number one CO2 emitting power plant for burning millions of tonnes more imported wood pellets. 😠
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Writing about Elon Musk’s pay package without leading with this is like profiling John Wayne Gacy’s booming party clown career.
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Writing about Elon Musk’s pay package without leading with this is like profiling John Wayne Gacy’s booming party clown career.