Actress narrates film that, she later discovers, says sun revolves around Earth

[LongTimeListener]

Kate Mulgrew (Kathryn Janeway on Star Trek: Voyager, though for me she'll always be Janet Eldridge on Cheers) narrated a film called The Principle, in which she says "Everything we think we know about our universe is wrong." Later finds out that the film argues for geocentrism, a.k.a. **** Galileo.

http://time.com/54684/star-trek-kate-mulgrew-the-principle-film/

Eh, whatever, check still cashed.

 

[Buck]

Could another blow to US test scores.

 

[apeman33]

The Kansas State Board of Education fails to see what the issue is here.

 

[Bubbler]

Wasn't Janeway assimilated by the Borg at one point? Or was that Picard? Whatever. Maybe the Borg wasn't so smart after all.

 

[outofplace]

Wasn't Janeway assimilated by the Borg at one point? Or was that Picard? Whatever. Maybe the Borg wasn't so smart after all.

That was Picard. Could have happened to Janeway, too, for all I know. Didn't really care for Voyager.

 

[YankeeFan]

She should sue, asserting the copyright of her own performance.

It worked for the actress in Innocence of Muslims:

Google has been ordered to remove from YouTube the controversial anti-Islamic movie Innocence of Muslims, which sparked protests across the Middle East eighteen months ago.

The movie presents the prophet Mohammed as a fraud and child abuser, and was linked to the September 2012 attack on a US diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, in which four Americans including the US ambassador were killed.

Back then, Google willingly blocked access to the video in certain countries – both in those where it was illegal on blasphemy grounds and, temporarily, in Egypt and Libya. Elsewhere, though, it remained visible, garnering many millions of YouTube views.

The new decision to have the 14-minute video taken down, though, has nothing to do with its inflammatory nature – no, it’s all about copyright. Actress Cindy Lee Garcia says she was tricked into taking part in the movie, and has asserted that she owns copyright over her performance.

She says she accepted the role in the belief that it was an adventure movie about ancient Egyptians called Desert Warrior. But, she says, it turned out to be an anti-Islamic polemic; indeed, her voice was dubbed over with the words “Is your Mohammed a child molester?”. As a result, unsurprisingly, she’s received death threats.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2014/02/27/us-court-orders-google-to-pull-anti-islamic-movie/

 

[Dick Whitman]

I was told on another thread that science is tentative and, thus, essentially worthless.

So this theory is just as valid as any other, no?

 

[Spartan Squad]

Wasn't Janeway assimilated by the Borg at one point? Or was that Picard? Whatever. Maybe the Borg wasn't so smart after all.

That was Picard. Could have happened to Janeway, too, for all I know. Didn't really care for Voyager.

Short answer, both she and Picard were assimilated. Long answer, that depends on how nerd you want to go.

 

[YankeeFan]

I was told on another thread that science is tentative and, thus, essentially worthless.

So this theory is just as valid as any other, no?

Yeah. We all know the Earth revolves around the Sun because a "consensus" of scientists says so.

 

[Dick Whitman]

I was told on another thread that science is tentative and, thus, essentially worthless.

So this theory is just as valid as any other, no?

Yeah. We all know the Earth revolves around the Sun because a "consensus" of scientists says so.

Is that why we know evolution is a fact, as opposed to Adam and Eve?

Secret cabal of scientists took a vote somewhere?

 

[YankeeFan]

Is that why we know evolution is a fact, as opposed to Adam and Eve?

Secret cabal of scientists took a vote somewhere?

You mean the "Theory of Evolution"?

And, no. That's my point.

Science is not about consensus. It's about evidence. It's about proving a theory.

That the Earth revolves around the Sun is not an accepted fact because of a consensus of scientists, it's because of evidence of such presented by scientists.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Is that why we know evolution is a fact, as opposed to Adam and Eve?

Secret cabal of scientists took a vote somewhere?

You mean the "Theory of Evolution"?

And, no. That's my point.

Science is not about consensus. It's about evidence. It's about proving a theory.

That the Earth revolves around the Sun is not an accepted fact because of a consensus of scientists, it's because of evidence of such presented by scientists.

As opposed to evolution, of course, where scientists refuse to present evidence. Assholes.

 

[YankeeFan]

As opposed to evolution, of course, where scientists refuse to present evidence. Assholes.

I didn't say that. Was simply making a joke about the "theory" of evolution.

The issue I am being passive aggressive about is global warming global climate change.

 

[Dick Whitman]

As opposed to evolution, of course, where scientists refuse to present evidence. Assholes.

I didn't say that. Was simply making a joke about the "theory" of evolution.

The issue I am being passive aggressive about is global warming global climate change.

Do scientists refuse to cite evidence there?

 

[YankeeFan]

Do scientists refuse to cite evidence there?

No.

But, they also argue that it should be accepted as fact because there is a consensus.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Do scientists refuse to cite evidence there?

No.

But, they also argue that it should be accepted as fact because there is a consensus.

Scientists argue that?

 

[bueller]

I should make a Seven of Nine reference. However, on this board, she'd be renamed Six of Nine.