We wake in the night in the middle of a rather good segment that BBC5 provides as part of the Up All Night program. A scientist gives bits of newish or obscure information and answers questions on a wide variety of scientific topics that are phoned or texted or emailed in. Tonight the scientist is explaining the success of faecal transplants in cases of C Difficile. It sounds, of course, both disgusting and improbable, but I happen to have seen an article on same today in The Atlantic, and there seem to have been some brilliant results.
This is followed by a man phoning in who sounds highly educated and who is explaining in some technical detail about nanobacteria, and going into further detail about medical implications. It begins by sounding interesting and I take him quite seriously even on the curative possibilities of couch grass, until he says that his mother was on antibiotics for two and a half years before he was born (OK, plausible) for reasons he can't say over the radio (what, distinctly odd). Then he finishes with the information that he listens to the radio at night to keep his mind off the abductors. A nutter!
This is followed by a man phoning in who sounds highly educated and who is explaining in some technical detail about nanobacteria, and going into further detail about medical implications. It begins by sounding interesting and I take him quite seriously even on the curative possibilities of couch grass, until he says that his mother was on antibiotics for two and a half years before he was born (OK, plausible) for reasons he can't say over the radio (what, distinctly odd). Then he finishes with the information that he listens to the radio at night to keep his mind off the abductors. A nutter!
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