BBC cure campaign continues

Just this month 250 members of the paralysis community sent emails to the BBC Trust to protest against the BBC programme Horizon's depiction of robots as an an answer to the problems of paralysis while completely failing to talk about the real advancements in regenerative medicine.

Well, the BBC Trust blew us off by saying that their job was not to deal with the editorial content of BBC programmes. This is despite that fact that the BBC Trust's job is to make sure that the public interest is served by the BBC. How was the public interest served by Horizon's poorly researched segment on paralysis cure? If anything this spreads misinformation to the public about the real barriers that those living with paralysis face.

Well, if the BBC Trust cannot help us, we decided to write to the producers and the presenter to see what they had to say about our complaints.

Below you'll find a copy of the email we sent and we'll let you know the answer if and when we get an answer.