Scientist forced to apologise after ‘new picture of star’ turns out to be slice of chorizo
A world-renowned scientist has been forced to apologise after he shared what he claimed was a stunning picture of a star – and turned out to be a slice of chorizo.
Étienne Klein, a celebrated French physicist, shared an image of what he said was Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to Earth. He said the picture had been taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, from which a host of stunning images had been revealed in recent weeks.
At first glance, the image looked legitimate, showing the deep red and swirling white colours of a star. But on closer inspection the image was something rather more down-to-Earth: a slice of chorizo against a black background.
About an hour after he first sent the tweet, Dr Klein made clear he had been joking. He quipped that when people got hungry they give into cognitive biases – and that people should be aware.
Then, hours after the original post, he said that he needed to respond to comments that appeared to be suggesting he had been mistaken himself. He said that the picture had been a “form of amusement” and once against reminded his followers that they should be suspicious both of arguments from authority as well as the convincing nature of such images.
NASA and tax payers are spending trillions of $ to FOOL AROUND and look for NOTHING in outer space, nobody gives a shit - we have enough problems here on earth to worry about why not spend that money wisely to help the MISERABLE HERE on this ********* planet, THEN we can worry about the stars and swirling holes. Some people even suggest the walking on the moon was fake too, I would not be too surprised - maybe that recent image from NASA, of the edge of the universe is fake too.
