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Professor '''John Brignell''' held the Chair in Industrial Instrumentation at University of Southampton (UK) from 1980 to the late 1990s. [http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~jeb/cv.htm]
Brignell retired in the late 1990's from his academic career and now devotes his time to his interest in debunking the use of what he claims to be false statistics common in much of today's media. He presents his views on his website ''Numberwatch'', which was launched in July 2000, and is "devoted to the monitoring of the misleading numbers that rain down on us via the media. Whether they are generated by Single Issue Fanatics (SIFs), politicians, bureaucrats, quasi-scientists (junk, pseudo- or just bad), such numbers swamp the media, generating unnecessary alarm and panic. They are seized upon by media, hungry for eye-catching stories. There is a growing band of people whose livelihoods depend on creating and maintaining panic." [http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/number%20watch.htm]
Brignell has expressed delight with the feedback from the "encouragement and support I have received from some of the giants of the pro-science movement in the USA -- in no particular order [[Steve Milloy]], [[Alan Caruba|Alan Coruba]] [''sic''], [[James Randi]], [[Bob Caroll]], [[Michael Fumento]] and [[S. Fred Singer]]." [http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/term%20end.htm].
