Inaccuracy in reporting astronomy and science |
Inaccuracy in reporting astronomy and science |
Jan 8 2007, 07:15 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 117 Joined: 7-December 06 From: Sheffield UK Member No.: 1462 |
I have just watched the BBC's report on the newly created 3D map of dark matter using Hubble data; and it made my heart sink.
I applaud the BBC for giving airtime to such discoveries, but for such a respected organisation their research was awful. It's no wonder the vast majority of people are either bewildered or disinterested the the universe as a whole when the facts they are given are completely wrong. It's a shame that tonight 60 million or so people in the UK and many other people around the world were told Hubble shone a beam of light out into the depths of the universe and studied how it was bent by the gravity of dark matter billions of light years away! And this was a report from the BBCs science correspondant! I remain downhearted that perhaps the most important story of the week was reported in such a shoddy manner. Does anyone else feel space is being let down by TV coverage? -------------------- It's a funny old world - A man's lucky if he gets out of it alive. - W.C. Fields.
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Jan 29 2014, 06:05 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2088 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Ontario Member No.: 5221 |
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Jan 29 2014, 06:22 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 706 Joined: 22-April 05 Member No.: 351 |
Sigh... Bet this gets dismissed in near record time. But it was amusing. I had expected a different plaintiff who has a history of outlandish claims concocted from planetary data -------------------- |
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Jan 30 2014, 01:12 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 495 Joined: 12-February 12 Member No.: 6336 |
I had expected a different plaintiff who has a history of outlandish claims concocted from planetary data Yes there's one or rather two persons who have been advocating their own interpretations of various data and images for many years. This is another person though, but yet I expect it to be dismissed also. @JhonnyVV: Yes the human brain have an ability to create images or patterns in forms we see, nature provides us with a Rorschach test. Not so long ago I were confused with some fossils in limerock here, turned out to be bivalvia - almost embarrassed to say what I thought they were at first. @Floyd: Yes things can go downhill pretty fast, yet when it is part of the mission planning or profile, the instrumentation and purpose should be possible to discuss. Else the forum go into the shady territory of censoring actual science. |
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