We live in a country where the vast majority of people mistrust science and scientists. This is reflected in pole after pole and the fact that the average citizen can be persuaded to vote against his own best interests because they will not listen critically to the scientific community.

One of the reasons for this is demonstrated clearly in this press release. The average person… Hell not the average person 99% of the population reading this will assume that the Supernova happened just before World War 1. The only part of the population that will know that it happened about 500,000 years ago are those who have an understanding of astronomy. How many of those are there. How about on this forum? You are all people way above average in an understanding of science but were you mislead by this press release?

How can we expect the informed citizens of the world to know what to think when they find out that the scientific community has *once again* demonstrated it’s disconnect with everyone else when it has to explain that it really didn’t mean 140 but 500,000.