Craig Haynie <[email protected]> wrote: It sounded almost like sarcasm. >
Probably was. We don't need to worry about stuff like this. It causes no harm. The only thing in the mass media that causes harm are reports meant to be taken seriously that are filled with misinformation, such as the Fleischmann obituaries, and columns published in Sci. Am. and by Lemonick and Gibbs. As I said before, slightly wrong information does not hurt either. The problem arises when people who know absolutely nothing make up stuff and publish it, like the reporters of 1904 who said the Wright brothers were flying some kind of balloon. - Jed
