[FoRK] Astronomers destroy the universe

[Jeff Bone]

On Dec 3, 2007, at 7:08 PM, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote:

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> On Dec 3, 2007, at 4:04 PM, Jeff Bone wrote:
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>>  http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2007/12/ 
>> astronomers_blamed_for_death_o.html
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> Fun. :-)
>> The bulk of the paper remains unchanged… but nobody ever talked  
>> about that part. It’s a cute example of how sensationalism  
>> amplifies the least reliable aspects of science, while ignoring  
>> the solid stuff.
>>
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> Horrors!  Picking one shocking example and calling that definitive,  
> while ignoring everything else.

Oh, you mean like repeatedly holding up the Soviet Union as an  
exemplar of the horror of an "atheistic" society?

Right....

jb