Top French Scientist Admits Photo He Tweeted of ‘Space Telescope Image’ of Nearest Star to the Sun Was Just a Slice of Chorizo
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/top-french-scientist-admits-photo-tweeted-space-telescope-image-nearest-star-sun-just-slice-chorizo/
Top French scientist Etienne Klein tweeted a photo of a slice of chorizo and told his nearly 100,000 Twitter followers that it was a ‘space telescope image’ of the nearest star to the sun.
Tens of thousands of people believed him without questioning anything.
The tweet has received tens of thousands of ‘likes’ and ‘retweets.’
“Picture of Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the Sun, located 4.2 light years away from us. It was taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. This level of detail… A new world is unveiled everyday,” Klein said on Sunday.
“In view of some comments, I feel compelled to clarify that this tweet showing an alleged snapshot of Proxima Centauri was a form of amusement. Let us learn to be wary of arguments from authority as much as of the spontaneous eloquence of certain images….” he said.
This is an example how easily people are willing to believe, whatever is sold to them as "science". The story reminds a lot of the famous photos of the black holes that have recently been published, pictures that have been rendered by a computer and where it remains unclear, what they actually show. Still everybody is convinced that they show pictures of black holes, because some scientist said so.
We should stop believing alleged "observations" that cannot be reproduced. Reports of singular observations are not science. Science is either repeated observations or experiments, whose controlled conditions can be reproduced. It is also necessary that scientific theories have to be able to make true predictions.
Black holes and other singularities do not fulfill these conditions. They are too remote to affect our lives. We are unable to conduct any experiments on them. We have instead theoretical hypotheses based on very few observations and far-fetched interpretations that we cannot follow or verify. The ring representing a black hole could be anything from a CGI product to a trivial object photographed in a low resolution and out of focus, just as the alleged photo of Proxima Centauri was actual a chorizo.
Science should be about things that surround and affect us. About these things we have lots of data. Remote cosmic objects do not affect us and we have therefore extremely little data available. We cannot derive a theory from them that would allow us to make predictions, whose truth can be verified by us.
While Socrates said: "I know that I know nothing", in fact we know all that we need to know. Because if something affects us, then we have plenty of information at our disposal to form our theories about it. If something affects us only a little, then we have little information to form a theory, but it is also of little concern to us. If something does not affect us at all, then we have no information about it to form any theory, but it is also of no concern for us.
