achieved notoriety when his previous series on the environment for the channel, called Against Nature , was roundly condemned by the Independent Television Commission for misleading contributors on the purpose of the programmes, and for editing four interviewees in a way that "distorted or mispresented their known views". Channel 4 was forced to issue a humiliating apology. But it seems to have forgiven Mr Durkin and sees no need to make special checks on the accuracy of the programme. For his part, the film-maker accepts the charge of misleading contributors, but describes the verdict of distortion as "complete tosh."Perhaps, the docu he pitched to Channel 4 back in 1998 wasn't "complete tosh." What was that docu? Well, here's a cutting from [http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2000/03/16/modified-truth/|a March 16, 2000 post] at Monbiot.com:
Channel 4 has hired a charlatan to make its science programmes By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 16th March 2000 In October 1998 a television producer named Martin Durkin took a proposal to the BBC's science series, Horizon. Silicone breast implants, he claimed, far from harming women, were in fact beneficial, reducing the risk of breast cancer. Horizon commissioned a researcher to find out whether or not his assertion was true. After a thorough review, the researcher reported that Mr Durkin had ignored a powerful body of evidence contradicting his claims. Martin Durkin withdrew his proposal. Instead of dropping it, however, he took it to Channel 4 and, astonishingly, sold it to their science series, Equinox. To help him make the programme, Durkin hired Najma Kazi, a highly respected TV researcher and producer who was previously a research biochemist. After two weeks she walked out. "It's not a joke to walk away from four or five month's work," she told me, "but my research was being ignored. The published research had been construed to give an impression that's not the case. I don't know how that programme got passed. The only consolation for me was that I'm really glad I didn't put my name to it."GMWatch.org a website dedicated to publicizing concerns about Genetic Modification (GM) of foods [http://www.gmwatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=39|said this] about Durkin:
In 1997 television producer Martin Durkin from the TV company Kugelblitz made a series for Channel 4 called Against Nature, which targeted environmentalists, presenting them as 'the new enemy of science' and as comparable to the Nazis. They were responsible, the series argued, for the deprivation and death of millions in the Third World.In short, this guy has a habit of taking accepted science fact and making docus that dispute accepted science fact by conjuring up the few who disagree with said facts or by lying to scientists who agree with the facts and then twisting their words. Meanwhile Drudgeypants is posting it on his site like this docu will "rock climate debate." Yeah, right. Typical Drudge. Like he's anything but Mr. Tabloid. The only reason I post so much about the guy is because so many news sources seem to take his lead on stories. Sad, when he does so little to research the stories he links to and what's even more sad is that the "official" "journalists" "reporting" on this docu aren't even doing their job by researching the filmmaker. I mean, the guy has a history of going after environmentalists and their message. He said breast implants are good for you! Can we independents PLEASE build a space ship and leave this mess of a planet where EVERYTHING is politics and NOTHING is truth?
Orignal From: ANTI GLOBAL WARMING DOC DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE
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