Once again we have some professor who wants a bit of the limelight and so he rehashes some old research, tweaks it a bit and then invites the press to a slide show with some 'statistics' and voila! You have all the luvvie news editors wetting their pants with excitement over another scare story for the easily led followers of their dramatic license.
Not one of these editors have thought about the people who work in these environments day after day, the cabin crew. If this nutty professor had done any real research he would have done a study of the crews who work on aircraft day in and day out.
Shame on the BBC for their petty treatment of the subject. Their news broadcasts are becoming more and more disappointing by the day as they try to dumb down to Daily Mail standards with poorly researched pieces which are designed to slightly shock but are totally bland and worthless.
All day they have been drumming up this news and they brought in a CAA medical man and then the ATA had a spokesman who just stuttered and hummed and erred. To top it off they have a reporter talking boll@cks about airlines 'reducing' the fresh air and a piece on some woman who caught something on holiday but her ENT specialist told her it was from an aircraft. Like he was an expert! Just makes me sick to see this kind of shabby reporting and hyping up of peoples fears of flying.
Not one reporter has researched the air conditioning system of any aircraft and for them to pose stupid questions such as "why do airlines reduce the amount of oxygen in the aircraft cabin?". Not one has thought about the amount of recirculated air a group of people in close proximity to each other breath in a busy cinema for example.
Just makes me and no doubt many of the readers here think of those journalists and reporters and their editors with even more contempt. What a bunch of pathetic scaremongerers and the industry can't even field a few spokespeople who can show up these ignorant oiks.