These
science b/haters can go to any extent in trying to demolish science and claims
of scientists. They have unabashedly questioned Evolution and advanced Creation
even in this day and age. Some question if earth rotates at all! Geocentricism
has not died yet, either. And the media often falls prey to them. For instance
how many of our TV Channels challenge heresy, and offer equal time for
scientific explanations to everyday phenomenon? Indeed, so many of our print
publications run astrology columns.
Remember
how the media fanned the Ganesh Drinking Milk fiasco? And why just India media?
Here is a quote "On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March
19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land
on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. The program was an hour long,
and featured interviews with a series of people who believe that NASA faked the
Apollo Moon landings in the 1960s and 1970s. The biggest voice in this is Bill
Kaysing, who claims to have all sorts of hoax evidence, including pictures
taken by the astronauts, engineering details, discussions of physics and even
some testimony by astronauts themselves. The program's conclusion was that the
whole thing was faked in the Nevada desert (in Area 51, of course!). According
to them, NASA did not have the technical capability of going to the Moon, but
pressure due to the Cold War with the Soviet Union forced them to fake it. Sound
ridiculous? Of course it does! It is. So let me get this straight right from
the start: this program is an hour long piece of junk." [Courtesy:
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html] Innocent mistakes by
non-science people, dabbling in science, like me are one thing.
"Authoritative hoaxes" by pseudo scientists and, worse, by science
haters, and by Godmen pedaling what they call 'scientific facts' are another.
Yours to ponder.
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