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Article: <[email protected]>
From: [email protected](Nancy )
Subject: Re: IN SYMPATHY to the Hale-Bopp Cooperative
Date: 22 Feb 1997 22:06:12 GMT
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In article <[email protected]>
>> 10. planned to RIDE THROUGH PERIHELION with a
>> series of pictures, recent releases from the PI, that
would
>> dazzle the public and flood the newpapers, so that the
>> absense of any real comet in the skies during perihelion
>> would not be remembered by the majority.
>>
>> Just what would an astronomer, caught in this situation,
>> having done what he thought was his civic duty, doing
>> what he had been told was for the good of the country,
DO
>> when in the squeeze? What to do when the doctored images
>> are exposed for what they are? What to do when the
>> inconsistencies in the story are too glaring? What to do
>> when the inconsistencies are posted beside each other,
so that
>> their cumulative impact cannot be dismissed with various
>> academic mumblings?
>
> I certainly won't be standing around on sci.astro spouting
out
> false statements. But then, here I am. I also wouldn't have
> been likely to have gotten into your hypothetical
astronomers
> situation and then I wouldn't step forward voluntarily to
> spout falsehoods on sci.astro.
> [email protected] (Jim Scotti)
> Lunar & Planetary Laboratory
> University of Arizona
> Tucson, AZ 85721 USA
>http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/
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As we said, mumblings.
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