Quote Originally Posted by Kam
it's a sad state of global intelligence, or the lack thereof, that scientists thought it neccessary to disclaim the "facts" in this movie thinking people might actually believe them... which, even more unfortunately, I am sure they did.
Only History is less understood than Science in schools. It truly IS scary the kind on nonsense most people will believe. I've heard it firsthand myself all the time... and the scary part is, you can't reason with such dolts. They're no different than the uneducated peasants in the middle ages who believed whatever the priests said.

But I agree, I don't know what good it might do. I guess a few might be relieved, but you're hardly gonna change a dolt into a person of reason... with facts.

Saw this the other day on science & the movies...

...Many teachers use films to illustrate scientific concepts within their classrooms. "The bad stuff is usually spectacular," says Tom Rogers, a former mechanical engineer who now teaches at Southside High School in Greenville, S.C. If the science in a movie is really bad, Rogers says, he writes a review for Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics (http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/), which is a feature of an educational Web site that he founded.

The rest of the article is HERE