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The decision of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to make major changes in its main science programme, Catalyst, after a review is telling: one of the five people who was responsible for programmes that led to the review was the sponsor of the review himself!

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has decided to sack all the staff of its main science programme Catalyst and replace the half-hourly weekly episodes with one-hour specials that will be sourced mainly from independent producers.

In what is surely one of the most cringeworthy efforts to shore up the ABC top brass, the corporation's Media Watch programme has called for the head of Dr Maryanne Demasi, the presenter who was suspended last week for a programme on the alleged links between mobile phone use and brain cancer provocatively titled "Wi-Fried".

The ABC has been forced to remove an episode of its Catalyst programme from its Internet archive, following an internal investigation that found it had not met the organisation's own editorial guidelines.