I'm not sure what's more priceless in this video: Attenborough's eyebrows making an abrupt dash for the ceiling, or publicity-seeking scientist Jørn Hurum's hand-wringing grimace. The question? New Scientist's Rowan Hooper asked Hurum whether the team behind the recent Ida fossil farce couldn't "have waited a little longer to do a more rigorous analysis before making their media splash." The response (see video here) was illuminating, and frankly cynical. I'll be blogging about Ida in more detail tonight, after the BBC1 show at 9pm.







