Re: [ATM] Read and Weep

[Richard Ozer <rozer@pacbell.net>]

The quality of any kind of science reporting has reached an all time 
low.  Here's one I found the other day
related to the discovery of an exo-planet orbiting 55 Cancri.

"The new planet has nearly the same mass and age as our sun, is "easily 
visible'' with binoculars, and is located in a so-called "habitable zone'',
a band around the star where the temperature would permit liquid water 
to pool on solid surfaces, Nasa said."

Of course NASA did not say any of that (although I had to check to be 
sure)....

I'm equally sure Nikon didn't say what the NRA reported.  As I recently 
mentioned on another list, bad science reporting, among other things,
will help send us back to the dark ages...

RO

Richard Schwartz wrote:
>  America's Freedom Magazine (a publication of the National Rifle
> Association) has in the November 2007 issue an article, "Nikon: Optics Are
> Our Soul".   Read it critically and you will see statements such as "...the
> reason a lens is curved is to allow the light to go through the optic in a
> straigtht line, which increases brightness.  If an aspherical lens is used
> to enhance edge-to-edge clarity, the ability to gather light is reduced...."
>
> Huh?
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