How to face Pseudoscience on TV

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        Dear Paleonetters,

        We should think about a way in which if the debate about MOM
continues, another television than NBC gains in audience. In this way we
can prevent NBC from showing and reshowing such programmes.

        We should probably contact another television and ask it to reshow
the MOM, interrupting the program on each false point and showing what was
false in it. This can be a mixture of science and irony to keep the
audience high. It is very likely that the same sponsors are going to
support this programme presented by another television!

        I'm sure many of you have in mind even better solutions.

        Perhaps we are lucky that the wrong paleontology becomes more
popular and creates audience. Our job now is much simpler. We only have to
switch it to good paleontology (but we have to KEEP it popular).


        Ali T. Haidar



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Ali Talal Haidar

Institute of Geology
Department of Earth Sciences
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
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