Talk:Jonathan Miller/Archive 1

Headings
Please do not add pointless, unhelpful headings like "biography" or "life and career". This article is a biography, those things are implied by the fact that it's an article about a person. The heading in question does not help usefully structure the article, it is not a logical way to group the paragraphs in question and it creates an unhelpful single sentence introduction. I get the feeling that people are adding it to shift the TOC up the page, which can be done in more sensible ways which comply with WP:MOS. Joe D (t) 02:47, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Jeremy Hilary Boob
The article states: ''Jeremy Hilary Boob, Ph.D., a strange character in the Beatles animated movie Yellow Submarine, is widely believed to be based on Miller. Boob describes himself as an "eminent physicist, polyglot classicist, prize-winning botanist, hard-biting satirist, talented pianist, good dentist too", and the band sing the song Nowhere Man about him.''

These are weasel words and no evidence for this "widely believed" thing is cited, not even that it is widely believed. -- Zz 11:15, 8 December 2006 (UTC)


 * There is exactly one possible citation for this on the web. "Lee Minoff said this character was based on director Jonathan Miller, who’d directed Minoff’s play ‘Come Live With Me’ on Broadway." No mention of when or where Minoff said this, although it does at least pin down who was supposed to have said it. &mdash; coe l acan t a lk  &mdash; 12:43, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * If a more reliable source (along the line of your criticism) could be given, then the claim may return to the article. -- Zz 23:33, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Research Fellowship at UCL
I have tried to edit the section where this reference occurs so that the user a better grasp of chronology. I am pretty sure it occurred in the early 1970s. I remember A. S. Byatt referring to his academic position at UCL in the revival, a decade ago, of The Brains Trust on BBC2, but I do not have access to, er Who's Who to be more precise. The Web only refer to this period of Miller's career in mirrors of this article. Philip Cross 19:24, 3 April 2007 (UTC)


 * I've added the dates of Miller's fellowship at UCL, 1970-73, taken from Who's Who. Mick gold (talk) 15:33, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Controversy
Regardless of the fact that these sections are discouraged, there was no expression of a controversy over this piece. It simply stated a fact which may be open to criticism. Unless there was a significant debate over this piece, it really shouldn't be here. However, I've moved it to here for the moment;


 * In 1996, The UK Sunday Express newspaper published under the headline "Chronic Bandwagon Disease", Miller's claim that chronic fatigue syndrome, was "the absolutely most fashionable disease", dismissing the illness as a "Chronic Fictitious Sickness".

--THobern 23:25, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Controversy sections are often very important, but in this case I would have to agree with you.... Valerius Tygart (talk) 18:33, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Opera Works?
Hi. I remember a wonderful series that JM did called "Opera Works". That series doesn't seem to be mentioned in the article. Does anyone know any more about his "Opera Works"? HWV258 . 11:04, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I found this reference: http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/28643 HWV258 . 11:05, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

Sculptor
Why is miller described as a sculptor? He has not produced any sculpture of note. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.165.29.35 (talk) 01:04, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Neuropathology
Jonathan miller is NOT a neuropathologist. I know him. I know people he trained with. I am a neuropathologist, He is trained asa NEUROLOGIST

this is pure fiction — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:6:1a00:c922:d82f:9c1c:6fde:c91 (talk • contribs) 03:08, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

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