Re: Ansible 250 [long]

"David Langford" <ansible@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
> ANSIBLE 250

> PATRICK STEWART's Broadway role as Macbeth drew some highly relevant
> questions from _Newsweek_'s Nicki Gostin: 'When you're onstage, aren't
> you worried about weird Trekkie fans in the audience?' _PS:_ 'Oh, come
> on, that's just a silly thing to say.' _NG:_ 'But they are weird.'
> _PS:_
> How many do you know personally? You couldn't be more wrong. Here's
> the
> thing: if you say the fans are weird, that means there is something
> essentially weird about the show, and there is nothing weird about it.
> I'm very passionate when people like you snigger.' [AL] Of course
> _Newsweek_ (7 Apr) headlined this _Macbeth_ interview 'Mr. Stewart
> Loves
> His Trekkies', with the photo caption 'Is that a Klingon I See?'

With quality journalism like that I can see why some people seem to 
think that Newsweek is a valid science source to cite when asked to back 
up the notion that "in the 70's there was a scientific consensus that we 
were about to have an ice age".

Karl Johanson