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Japanese Mafia created Katrina 11/15/05So I'm enjoying a relaxing Saturday after a hard day of picking up leaves. I'm not looking for controversy. I'm not in study mode. I'm just looking for some mindless entertainment on the TV (I didn't even watch Michigan put the hurt on Indiana). Unfortunately, I flipped by the A&E network and stopped to see a bright and normal-looking weather guy talking about hurricane Katrina. I'm guessing he's not going to say that Bush blew up the levies, and he didn't. But could I have heard him properly? The Japanese Mafia used old soviet technology to manipulate the weather? What we won't do for ratings. Shame on A & E. According to the Tribune News in Tocoma, Washington, Scott was actually a weather guy on KPVI-TV until recently. The article says, "Stevens believes a little-known oversight in physical laws makes it possible to create and control storms using a Cold War-era weapon allegedly made by the Russians in 1976." Now I suppose we should just all laugh at this and leave it at that. There are just two things I wish to point out. First, for every nut there are thousands and thousand of people willing to believe his or her "scientific evidence". He claims 120,000 hits per day to his web site (yes - I'll give you the link. It is http://www.weatherwars.info/index.html). In fact metaphorically speaking, you work with these people, go to school with these folks, take your kids to this kind of doctor, and listen to this kind of pastor at church. Now it is vitally important to point out that this doesn't make them bad people. It doesn't make me better than them. And in fact, they could be right. But it does reinforce my message that we need to very careful about the standards of proof we require, and about understanding that we are a fallible species, prone to all sorts of wackiness. It's just tough sometimes to figure out who is who. Second, with entertainment competition as fierce as it is, this is the type of content we can continue to expect to see. It's one thing to debunk this kind of thing - or the apparent thousands of believers who think that the government intentionally caused the levy breaches in New Orleans - but it's entirely another to present it with an implied sense of plausibility for dramatic effect. |
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