I watched it too, and at the the time I laughed.
Reading Barrie's article perhaps I shouldn't have, because he's right, these so called experts are making programmes that the unknowing masses will wholeheartedly take as fact because it's on TV.
If they are going to make programmes like this they surely have a duty to get their facts right or at least correct them afterwards if they are pointed out as being incorrect like the papers have do.