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One last try.

Tom Brosz — 4/27/2004 2:34:14 PM (archived)

The political impact of something like this on a movie audience that may not be up on a lot of the science is not something to be ignored.

Ironically, the movie "China Syndrome" was one cause of a widespread hostility towards building nuclear power plants, which are a major solution to CO2 emissions in the atmosphere.

I stand by both of these statements, which mean exactly what they say. Movies (and of course, books,) can be and have been used as political weapons--on any side of an issue--and movies that supposedly are based in science but are in fact full of scientific fallacies and myths have done some damage to our technological progress. The one I mentioned was among the worst offenders.

Hollywood has a leftist political axe to grind that a Viking berserker couldn't lift, and this covers a lot of subjects besides science.

This is NOT a call for any form of censorship. Maybe a call for movies that tell the whole story, or science movies that actually contain some science.

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Bush muzzles NASA regarding FOX'S new climate-chanve movie. - Astro - 4/25/2004 1:33:44 PM
- FOX'S new climate-change movie. - Tom Brosz - 4/25/2004 6:49:29 PM
  - Re: Use of scientifically-inaccurate entertainment for political purposes - Tom Brosz - 4/28/2004 2:22:52 AM
  - Bad Science: entertainment, or instruction by fear? - jms - 4/27/2004 1:11:49 AM
    - btw . . . brilliant, jms! - Fox - 4/30/2004 1:12:32 AM
    - re: Bad Science: entertainment, or instruction by fear? - Larry J - 4/27/2004 7:44:17 PM
    - re: Bad Science: entertainment, or instruction by fear? - gbaikie - 4/27/2004 7:06:32 PM
      - I'm glad to discover I was misled by the media. (n/t) - jms - 4/27/2004 10:21:50 PM
  - China Syndrome vs. Three Mile Island - Dave M - 4/26/2004 5:06:53 PM
  - China Syndrome vs. Three Mile Island - Dave M - 4/26/2004 5:06:38 PM
    - And, while we're speculating . . . - Fox - 4/30/2004 1:37:38 AM
    - Bingo! (n/t) - Fox - 4/28/2004 2:03:54 AM
  - A different take - R.L. - 4/26/2004 12:21:15 AM
    - re: A different take - gbaikie - 4/26/2004 11:07:44 AM
      - Are you TRYING to humiliate yourself? - R.L. - 4/27/2004 4:36:15 AM
        
        re: Are you TRYING to humiliate yourself? - gbaikie - 4/27/2004 10:03:57 AM
    - Yet another: "reverse psychology" - Fox - 4/26/2004 2:03:26 AM
      - (What the heck was that all about? R. L., I mean.) (n/t) - Bowser - 4/26/2004 2:24:49 AM
  - Do you realize the implications of that post? - Bowser - 4/25/2004 8:14:52 PM
    - re: Do you realize that the New York Times is, as usual, entirely full of crap? - Tom Brosz - 4/25/2004 9:54:57 PM
      - No. The implications of what YOU said. Do you realize those? (n/t) - Bowser - 4/25/2004 10:32:11 PM
        
        Yes, I said movies like this can have a political impact, and have in the past. You got a problem with that? - Tom Brosz - 4/25/2004 11:32:37 PM
        
        Slick Willy couldn't have done it better. - Bowser - 4/25/2004 11:59:29 PM
        
        Talking to a wall again. - Tom Brosz - 4/26/2004 4:26:01 AM
        
        Ho hum. "Slick Willy couldn't have - - - - - " See above. (n/t) - Bowser - 4/26/2004 4:57:41 AM
        
        re: Yeah, right. - Tom Brosz - 4/26/2004 3:19:35 PM
        
        re: Yeah, right.... right.... - Nick Hoffman - 4/26/2004 5:10:17 PM
        
        One last try. - Tom Brosz - 4/27/2004 2:34:14 PM

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