You are correct, of course...
But if you have no grasp of basic science I guess it makes sense... Funny thing is, at least one of the authors now accepts that it is garbage...
"In his 1999 book "The Little Book of Science," Dr. Gribbin said of his theory "...I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it."
see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_effect
