Dr. Karl

Dr. Karl 'features' in a weekly slot on the ABC's Triple J radio station.

Wikipedia, tells us that Triple J is intended for listeners between 18 and 30 years of age, perhaps Wikipedia should tell us of the of the target audience expressed in IQ of Triple J, because I would hazard a guess that Dr. Karl's show is aimed at the very low end of that IQ range.

'Listeners' call in with science questions, just by Triple J answering the phone, the lucky caller is elevated to the status of Dr.(say Bruce), presumably this is similar to the method in which Dr. Karl obtained his status as a Doctor, because the way that Dr. Karl answers questions invariably falls into the following categories.

• Dr. Karl has no idea what the answer of the question is, so he makes up the answer, and it such a way that it is very obviously made up.
• Dr. Karl has no idea what the answer of the question is, so he steers the answer in a direction that is vaguely related to the question. 
• Dr. Karl has no idea what the answer of the question is, so he asks other 'Doctors' (low IQ listeners) to call in with the answer.
• Dr. Karl has no idea what the answer of the question is, so he talks about the earth's magnetic field.

I honestly can't remember hearing Dr. Karl answer a question with an answer that sounded slightly plausible, because of this I feel that Dr. Karl is a charlatan.

However, his full name is quite fantastic in its excess, Karl Sven Woytek Sas Konkovitch Matthew Kruszelnicki, I'd like to see how Qantas deal with that on their boarding passes...