Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Vortex

In short, it is fringe theory science-babble wrapped in pretty animation. The majority of those viewers will watch it, accept it and move on. And with 1.4 million views and climbing, the video has spread more misconceptions in a day than I or most other scientists could counter in a year. Pretty noise that overwhelms the signal.
by (https://briankoberlein.com/2014/03/15/signal-noise/)

1 comment:

oceanwhale said...

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/03/04/vortex_motion_viral_video_showing_sun_s_motion_through_galaxy_is_wrong.html