Gluonium: Horizon etc. exists as pop-science TV to teach non-professional scientists the basics of a certain area/series of events. As with all television, it's dumbed-down to a certain degree - this is to allow easier accessibility to the lay-person. As someone who has studied science and works in it, you're not part of the BBC team (behind the programmes) targeted demographic (as Westy said, it's more aimed at teenagers/general public).

Now, if you want prime example of science being totally warped to a spiritual manipulation of media - watch What The Beep...it's far more mis-construed than any Horizon could ever be!

I thought it was, thanks. Usually UK pop-science programmes are my forte - not seen that one. Whoever edited it did quite a good job (apart from the error minute at the end!) Now, to work out how to put that in the title/tags...

This is a clip of 'What The Beep Do We Know?' - an excellent pop-science film full of animation/FX & weird theories/experiments. I was going to post it, but it had been pulled from Google since watching it; so submitted 'What We Still Don't Know: Are We Real?' instead.