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Originally Posted by cometcatcher
What I find really disturbing is when I go to youtube and put "ISON" in the search, I find nothing but doomsday and conspiracy videos. Same goes for any asteroid, comet or astronomical event. The ratio of nutters to sane people on youtube seems all out of proportion. Perhaps it's the hit counter that drives the madness. After all everyone wants 10 bazzillion hits to brag about!
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Unfortunately this type of nonsense also extends to well known sites such as Phys.org. The comments section for the Astronomy and Astrophysics articles in particular are overrun by cranks typically from the electric universe looney brigade who get free publicity for their moronic ideas. It has led to Popular Science shutting down its comments section due to the constant sabotaging of articles.
The tragedy is that many readers "learn their science" from the comments section which was the main reason for Popular Science closing it down.
Regards
Steven