What is research? I don't know about you, but the t.v. seems to think that research is a tech standing over a bunch of test tubes that contain coloured liquids. T.V. is riddled with stereotypes. I've been interviewed by every Canadian t.v. network over the years and, invariably, I have to be shown with a stethoscope and taking a patient's blood pressure. The lucky patient has to be on an examination couch and not in a chair. One t.v. station agreed to interview me in my home but insisted that the interview be conducted in the garden because it was an interview about health and the weather. Being out in the garden a nuisance too, because every time a large truck went by the sound engineer stopped the proceedings. I live near a hospital. Ambulances scream in quite often during the day and so the interview took up three hours of my time (they promised an hour, tops.) And then, would you believe, they cut my segment out of the program.