Click Bait
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2024 12:44 am
The gnomes of mainstream astrophysics have created a whole cottage industry of click bait new age websites that publish articles that the mainstream media then pick up and regurgitate to the public at large. For example, here’s an article (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technolo ... r-AA1uonsW) from “The Brighterside of News” (some new age feel good website) that MSN.com picked up and republished, titled “Astronomers discover origins of dark matter in “Dark Big Bang.”
That title make it sound like the origins of dark matter have been found … that it’s now settled science. But the truth is that astronomers haven't discovered anything to prove this so the idea is far from settled science. It's only a theory, a paper/computer study, piling one gnome on top of another. The article, in short, is CLICK BAIT, whose only intent is to make make money for the Brighterside of News and MSN, and indoctrinate the public in mainstream *beliefs* (I avoided the word science deliberately).
The purpose is to make the public think that mainstream astrophysicists are accomplishing things that are worthwhile even though this research has NO benefit to the taxpayers funding it. It to encourage the taxpaying public to keep funding such studies and thus keep the scientists and everyone else involved in this scam employed as well. Just saying ...
That title make it sound like the origins of dark matter have been found … that it’s now settled science. But the truth is that astronomers haven't discovered anything to prove this so the idea is far from settled science. It's only a theory, a paper/computer study, piling one gnome on top of another. The article, in short, is CLICK BAIT, whose only intent is to make make money for the Brighterside of News and MSN, and indoctrinate the public in mainstream *beliefs* (I avoided the word science deliberately).
The purpose is to make the public think that mainstream astrophysicists are accomplishing things that are worthwhile even though this research has NO benefit to the taxpayers funding it. It to encourage the taxpaying public to keep funding such studies and thus keep the scientists and everyone else involved in this scam employed as well. Just saying ...