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Top Scientist Admits Webb Telescope Star Photo Was Chorizo
- xd 4y agoIncredible he's had to apologise, my kids thought it was funny and now interested in seeing actual pictures of space.
- verdverm 4y agoIt's hard to make jokes anymore, someone might mistake it as truth and then you are spreading fake news, must protect the sheeple... that or they will chappelle you
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- sokoloff 4y agoSad and entirely unsurprising that general intolerance in social media is calling for an apology where none is due, IMO.
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- tamaharbor 4y agoWhy is there no outrage? He is a scientist and he lied. Why does he still have his Twitter account? How can anyone believe anything ‘scientists’ say about Covid? About climate change?
- alexvoda 4y agoCan't tell if sarcasm or serious.
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- sp332 4y agoHe admitted the hoax in the next tweet. He didn't try to get it published or anything.
- tamaharbor 4y agoIt was fake news. Some get crucified for behavior like this. I can’t stand the double standard.
- UncleEntity 4y agoIs the double standard that normal people can “tell jokes” but scientists are “spreading fake news”?
- gala8y 4y ago> people can “tell jokes” I think his tweet lacked signaling that is was in fact a joke. That makes a difference.
- mcphage 4y agoI think the picture of chorizo was the signal that it was a joke.
- gala8y 4y agoWell... sure. If I look at this, something is off for me and I get the cue (I would not say it was chorizo, though), but he released it into the wild. For many this would not be a joke until they see follow up tweet - they are missing this cue. I am not in the camp of delicate snowflakes, but he shouldn't be surprised doing it like this in the wild. Added - ...and I surely know it's just too big. It's just not so much good of a joke, I think.
- mcphage 4y ago> It's just not so much good of a joke, I think. I suppose that’s why he went into astrophysics instead of comedy.
- Nihilartikel 4y agoHere's the thing. The post was a joke for other scientists.. ON Twitter. It's not like they were trying to advance their scientific career with fabricated findings. The target audience got a kick out of it. I'm certain. A predictable percentage of onlookers are predictably salty that they got fooled by a figure of authority.. I don't think an apology is really warranted. But they handled it well. That said, in a world that is constantly trying to maliciously misinform a person, it's understandable that the audience is a bit touchy about being fucked with .
- xoac 4y agoWait till you hear about the "milky way"...
- devoutsalsa 4y agoThat was funny. snickers
- jvandonsel 4y agoNow we get to see how the scientific sausage is made.
- rvieira 4y agoI always said chorizo was heavenly. (I'll see myself out)
- banku_brougham 4y agoThe rare HN discussion where reddit-style humorous posts are welcome.
- Nexxxeh 4y agoThis seems really misjudged and irresponsible when everyone is trying to push the message, "Trust expert scientists in their field". "Except when they're joking, but you don't know enough about their field to tell if they're joking, so you just have to hope" is not a helpful message. Whatever his goal actually was, it could have been achieved without damaging trust in scientists.
- etrautmann 4y agowhile I agree with you, this seems like obvious humor, and actually pretty funny. I push back on the idea that we have to be humorless evermore.
- Youden 4y agoIf it were Bill Nye or Neil Degrasse Tyson I might agree with you but I think the context is important: this is a French tweet. Does the Francosphere have the same issues with trusting science that the Anglosphere has?
- greenyoda 4y agoBig discussion a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32355480 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32355480