Re: Rebroadcast Origins

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Dear Mr. Cote:

I appreciate the advance notice of your press release about the reshowing
of "The Mysterious Origins of Man".   Can you please provide me a list of
the news organizations you sent your release to?

As you expected, I am appalled that you and NBC would once again represent
that program as the way science in America is done.  It does not do you,
NBC, or the sponsors any honor whatsoever.   It indicates to scientists a
large degree of ignorance about how science works.

You seem to think that scientists object to the theories presented.  Not in
most cases, because everything in the program has been dealt with by
legitimate science already.  You misrepresent the process of science--that
is quite a different and detrimental thing.   I can always straighten out
bad ideas with my students, but trying to teach them an intelligent way to
live their lives in this scientific society is very difficult when TV
promotes a fraudulent view of how science works.

I am amazed that NBC show this program again as science when a proper
scientific presentation of the same issues would be both beneficial and
entertaining to its viewers.

As its writer and director, I can appreciate your desire to use our
objections to promote it once again.   It is, however, a pathetic way to
make a buck, when honesty is so much better and profitable.

Sincerely,

Jere H. Lipps, Professor and Director
Department of Integrative Biology and
Museum of Paleontology
University of California
Berkeley, California 94720 USA

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