Science Policy: review of BBC science coverage

The report and response on the impartiality of BBC coverage of science has been published - commissioned by the BBC Trust.  Interesting reading overall, with a conclusion of a high quality of coverage, but areas for improvement.  In broad terms there is a need to improve the appropriate weight given in terms of the scientific consensus (where this exists) in areas of controversy - so how pro and con views on human-induced climate change are given. A lot of detail and case studies over a particular time period in evidence.  One slight oddity is that it does not appear that wildlife/nature programming is considered as science: perhaps this is because the scientific basis is not explicit to the layperson?