The Economist and the Financial Times were all over this story two years ago - doing what everyone else does, picking up their science news from New Scientist on a Friday morning. The BBC can't even do that any more.
Maybe they just trawl old magazines when one of their three thousand News & Current Affairs staffers visits the dentist on a slow news day.
Seems unlikely. The BBC covered the incident at the time as part of the technology/gaming section: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4272418.stm (which is linked from the sidebar).
However, the September 2007 issue of The Lancet has an article on the subject (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6W8X-4PG37SX-V&_user=10&_coverDate=09%2F30%2F2007&_rdoc=25&_fmt=summary&_orig=browse&_srch=doc-info(%23toc%236666%232007%23999929990%23666212%23FLA%23display%23Volume)&_cdi=6666&_sort=d&_docanchor=&_ct=26&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=ca1fa2ad45aee3bb9dabb655d23bd3c8) which, obviously, the BBC wouldn't have been able to mention two years ago, what with it not existing then. That's what they're covering.
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Maybe they just trawl old magazines when one of their three thousand News & Current Affairs staffers visits the dentist on a slow news day.
Seems unlikely. The BBC covered the incident at the time as part of the technology/gaming section: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4272418.stm (which is linked from the sidebar).
However, the September 2007 issue of The Lancet has an article on the subject (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6W8X-4PG37SX-V&_user=10&_coverDate=09%2F30%2F2007&_rdoc=25&_fmt=summary&_orig=browse&_srch=doc-info(%23toc%236666%232007%23999929990%23666212%23FLA%23display%23Volume)&_cdi=6666&_sort=d&_docanchor=&_ct=26&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=ca1fa2ad45aee3bb9dabb655d23bd3c8) which, obviously, the BBC wouldn't have been able to mention two years ago, what with it not existing then. That's what they're covering.