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When Celebrities Speak on Science

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the good-idea-bad-idea dept.

Timberwolf0122 writes to mention that the website Sense About Science is encouraging stars not to comment on scientific issues without at least checking their facts. A somewhat amusing article on the BBC matches up a few comments made by celebrities with the factual reaction from experts in the field of study tackled by their blunder.

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  1. Re:Ask a scientist by KermodeBear · · Score: 0, Troll

    Are you sure that you really want to end famine and disease? Though it may sound cruel, these kinds of things are necessary. The population is growing quickly already and without those things it would grow faster still. Besides - famine is Nature's way of saying, "Wow, there's too many of you." I'm all for the Bird Flu. Bring it on! I'll even help spread it for the good of the world.

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  2. Re:Ask a scientist by geekoid · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well, if they will stop going on about their 'invisible man in the sky' hypothosis without the slightest evidence, then I'd consider it.

    Plus, the worship of canabalism is a little .... odd.

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  3. Re:seconded. by Cro+Magnon · · Score: 0, Troll

    The scary thing is, if I had mod points, I would have modded that as "Insightful" instead of "Funny".

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  4. Re:seconded. by jcr · · Score: 0, Troll

    Someone touch a nerve there, Padre?

    -jcr

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