When Idiots Write Science Articles For Newspapers

Flame on. I’m reading this miserable piece of excrement about recent debates in cosmology. I just got to this sentence:

If you are inclined to skepticism this debate might seem like further evidence that cosmologists, who gave us dark matter, dark energy and speak with apparent aplomb about gazillions of parallel universes, have finally lost their minds.

I mean, if you think the astronomers are crazy, go talk to the physicists- who’ll start going on about cats being both alive and dead at the same time, things teleporting from point a to point b without traveling between those points, and time being slower as you travel faster.

There is a difference between skepticism and stupid ignorance. No one is more skeptical of ideas like dark matter and parallel universes than your average astronomer. The difference is that the astronomer actually knows the facts that give the theories credibility- to the point where the astronomers are dragged, despite their skepticism, and generally kicking and screaming, to the conclusion.

But this isn’t about the facts- the facts have no place here, this is the news. If ignorance is bliss, this is nirvana.