The difference between science and entertainment

There has been an on-line kerfuffle following some comments I made to an audience question at the Society of Biology on Tuesday. I thought I’d clarify. It’s quite simple.

Soyuz Landing

Chris Morris at CERN

Chris Morris visits CERN.

John Barrowman at CERN

John Barrowman visited CERN in April 2007.

Kevin Eldon and Simon Munnery at CERN Part 2

Kevin and Simon are taken on a tour of CERN's computer centre - the Vatican of The World Wide Web- as well as the tunnel of the Large Hadron Collider.

Kevin Eldon and Simon Munnery at CERN Part 1

Comedians Kevin Eldon and Simon Munnery visited Brian at CERN.

Phil Plait at CERN

The internet's most popular astronomy blogger, Dr. Phil Plait, visited Brian at CERN.

Science and Religion at CERN

The Very Reverend Victor Stock visits Brian at CERN

Quentin Wilson at CERN

We invited Quentin to come to CERN because of his interest in engineering, he left with a deeper understanding of the Universe and humanity's place in it.

Charles Jencks at CERN

Architect Charles Jencks, author of 'The Garden of Cosmic Speculation' visited Brian at CERN

Newsround at CERN

In 2007, Brian was visited at CERN by Newround's presenter Lizo Mzimba

Brian Cox and Jeff Foreshaw's Big Bang

What is infinity? Is the Milky Way omelette-shaped? Guardian readers ask particle physicists Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw to unscramble some of the universe's mysteries

Professor Brian Cox & the less beautiful lemur

Richard Branson: Delighted to find Brian Cox out in the depths of the Madagascan jungle recently. He was there using the aye-aye lemurs to illustrate a point about evolution in his new TV series

Why Quantum Theory Is So Misunderstood

Brian Cox's commentary from the Wall Street Journal