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The Mutating Mars Hoax

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Clive:
For the seventh year in a row, the Mars Hoax is infecting email boxes around the world. Passed from one reader to another, the message states that on August 27th Mars will approach Earth and swell to the size of a full Moon. "NO ONE ALIVE TODAY WILL EVER SEE THIS AGAIN," the email declares--always in caps.

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Simon:
Thanks for the warning, Clive.  ;D

sam:
I just don't understand how people believe this, then again I think the level of teaching in science makes this easily believable especially when there is some hype about it.

GillE:
If you saw how science is taught in faith schools, Sam,  you'd understand exactly how people can believe such things.  Richard Dawkins broadcast a programme called Faith Schools Menace a couple of weeks ago, which I've recorded.  Some of his interviews with pupils and teachers would make you think we were still living in the mid 18th century.

sam:
well I have seen how teaching in schools works, and I agree though I'd say its not from lack of scientific knowledge on the part of the teachers - though I do worry about the lack of people going into teaching that have had any real scientific experience - I just don't think a 3 year undergraduate course is enough for people to get a real grasp of how science progresses.

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