Even in the realm of space, the internet is filled with misleading information and crazy conspiracy theories.
Some of the craziest and dumbest false beliefs about space were laid out in an interview with science.
It's evidence that people believe in everything they hear. The interview shows that convincing people that their beliefs are incorrect is very difficult.
There is an idea that there is a giant void in space, and here is a picture of it. The cloud is a hazy formation of dust where stars are born.
It gets more eccentric than that.
There are some people who think that Mars will be as big as the Moon in the sky on a certain date. It was going to make us lighter.
That is all nonsense. Mack can't do anything about the weird claims that show up in her email inbox.
The problem with such claims is that they point at a bigger problem: distrust in science, which is caused by uneducated or misinformed people who band together as conspiracy theorists.
Mack told Science that blindly accepting that some people don't believe in gravity is dangerous.
The researcher said that people don't take the extra step of evaluating the image or video they are sharing on social media because they don't care or have research skills.
Mack told Science that she is more or less giving up on debunking wild claims she sees online and is more focused on sharing the real information.
It is an admirable approach to dealing with online misinformation. Finding a common ground and explaining scientific fact in a non-condescending way is a reasonable response to being called out for being stupid.
It may be enough to convince some people that gravity is real.
There is a dark side to online space disinformation.
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