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HAARP Holds Open House To Dispel Rumors Of Mind Control (adn.com)
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HAARP -- the former Air Force/Navy/DARPA research program in Alaska -- will host an open house Saturday where "We hope to show people that it is not capable of mind control and not capable of weather control and all the other things it's been accused of..." said Sue Mitchell, spokesperson for the geophysical institute at the University of Alaska. "We hope that people will be able to see the actual science of it." HAARP, which was turned over to The University of Alaska last August, has been blamed for poor crop yields in Russia, with conspiracy theorists also warning of "a super weapon capable of mind control or weather control, with enough juice to trigger hurricanes, tornadoes and earthquakes."
The facility's 180 high-frequency antennas -- spread across 33 acres -- will be made available for public tours, and there will also be interactive displays and an unmanned aircraft 'petting zoo'. The Alaska Dispatch News describes it as "one of the world's few centers for high-power and high-frequency study of the ionosphere... important because radio waves used for communication and navigation reflect back to Earth, allowing long-distance, short-wave broadcasting."
The facility's 180 high-frequency antennas -- spread across 33 acres -- will be made available for public tours, and there will also be interactive displays and an unmanned aircraft 'petting zoo'. The Alaska Dispatch News describes it as "one of the world's few centers for high-power and high-frequency study of the ionosphere... important because radio waves used for communication and navigation reflect back to Earth, allowing long-distance, short-wave broadcasting."
Unless nerds somehow means "gullible people", this is way out-of-scope.
Haunted house tours, ESP, telepathy, psychic surgery, and all forms of quackery is what eventually turned the Science Fiction channel into a crappy B movie version of Mystery Science Theater without the running commentary or humor.
There is real science out there, but putting crap like this in the mainstream just reaffirms that publishing couldn't differentiate between Science and a tuna fish sandwich. How is the public going to gain a better understanding of things if half or more of the information given to them is crap?
That looks like some of Correct The Record's work on reddit for Hillary. I've seen five comments in the same post with the same comment.