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Every mass-media article on fusion seems obliged to use "the fuel comes from water" line. I wonder if a "just says in mice" style harassment campaign would get
by sbierwagen 5y ago
Every mass-media article on fusion seems obliged to use "the fuel comes from water" line. I wonder if a "just says in mice" style harassment campaign would get journalists to stop saying this.
- ncmncm 5y agoJournalists quote promoters. When something has no reasonable prospect of ever producing, promoters resort to lying. Journalists are not responsible for it, although experience should make them less credulous. But pie in the sky sells better than skepticism.
- rpmisms 5y agoThe journalists are saying that because the PR people tell them that. If I were doing PR for a fusion project, I'd sell that aspect hard—it's technically true, and sounds great.