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07-24-2011, 09:33 PM
Planet Nibiru??? (http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/07/24/believers-in-mysterious-planet-nibiru-comet-elenin-await-earths-end/?test=faces)
By Natalie Wolchover (http://www.foxnews.com/author/natalie-wolchover/index.html)
Published July 24, 2011
| Space.com
Renowned astrophysicist Carl Sagan once described a "baloney detection kit" — a set of tools that skeptical thinkers use to investigate any new concept. A few of the key tools include a healthy distrust of information that isn't independently verified, critically assessing an idea rather than becoming irrationally attached to it simply because it's intriguing, and a preference for simple explanations over wildly speculative ones.
The waxing obsession with the planet Nibiru (http://www.space.com/12174-latest-news-for-nibiru-2012-and-planet-x.html) , which conspiracy theorists say is a planet swinging in from the outskirts of our solar system that is going to crash into Earth and wipe out humanity in 2012 — or, in some opinions, 2011 — shows that an astonishing number of people "are watching YouTube videos and visiting slick websites with nothing in their skeptical toolkit," in the words of David Morrison, a planetary astronomer at NASA (http://www.foxnews.com/topics/space/nasa.htm#r_src=ramp)Ames Research Center (http://www.foxnews.com/topics/space/ames-research-center.htm#r_src=ramp) and senior scientist at the NASA Astrobiology Institute.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/07/24/believers-in-mysterious-planet-nibiru-comet-elenin-await-earths-end/#ixzz1T4nHV7dK
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By Natalie Wolchover (http://www.foxnews.com/author/natalie-wolchover/index.html)
Published July 24, 2011
| Space.com
Renowned astrophysicist Carl Sagan once described a "baloney detection kit" — a set of tools that skeptical thinkers use to investigate any new concept. A few of the key tools include a healthy distrust of information that isn't independently verified, critically assessing an idea rather than becoming irrationally attached to it simply because it's intriguing, and a preference for simple explanations over wildly speculative ones.
The waxing obsession with the planet Nibiru (http://www.space.com/12174-latest-news-for-nibiru-2012-and-planet-x.html) , which conspiracy theorists say is a planet swinging in from the outskirts of our solar system that is going to crash into Earth and wipe out humanity in 2012 — or, in some opinions, 2011 — shows that an astonishing number of people "are watching YouTube videos and visiting slick websites with nothing in their skeptical toolkit," in the words of David Morrison, a planetary astronomer at NASA (http://www.foxnews.com/topics/space/nasa.htm#r_src=ramp)Ames Research Center (http://www.foxnews.com/topics/space/ames-research-center.htm#r_src=ramp) and senior scientist at the NASA Astrobiology Institute.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/07/24/believers-in-mysterious-planet-nibiru-comet-elenin-await-earths-end/#ixzz1T4nHV7dK
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