@Gallagher87: I don't understand what I need to justify, given that I've been following "Voyager" since its first episode and I already know perfectly by heart all the nonsense that Giacobbo spouts (yes, I confess, I'm a masochist). When I picked up the book in the bookstore, I flicked through it, but on whatever page my eye fell upon, it was nothing more than the printed version of the same identical nonsense he says on the show, so I ALREADY KNOW what this book is about because I already know exactly everything that's written, as there is nothing new or different compared to what is said on TV. Giacobbo has been spouting the same crap for YEARS, continuously recycling the same identical segments (or worse, the same identical segments with minimal changes and passing them off as new), and if you don't realize it, it means you're the perfect audience for this show that I watch, yes, but with a critical spirit and not to swallow all the crap that's being shoveled at me with my eyes blindfolded and my mouth wide open. Example: in the latest episode, Giacobbo aired, in addition to the ridiculously absurd Paul Is Dead farce (will it be the twentieth time he's talked about it in less than 10 years of broadcasting? Yes, it will! What idiots!), also a completely ABERRANT segment on the most unscientific theory since... nothing equally crazy comes to mind: the Earth is expanding, swelling from the inside like a balloon. Fifteen minutes of footage to convince us that material is "generated"? "produced"? "created"? from the Earth's core that then rises to the surface through underwater faults. But if a balloon swells because I pump in air, how does the Earth swell, who is injecting material??? Obviously, the forbidden words Pangea, continental drift, and plate tectonics were not even mentioned; heaven forbid; the only skeptic was Margherita Hack, but to be both guarantors and scoundrels, they included her, yes, but in the midst of the segment for just a few seconds so that she passed by like leaves in the wind, since after her intervention the speaker continued as if nothing had happened to speak ill. Now: is this being the "mouth of truth"??? About what??? And for whom??? It expresses the truth of what??? But aside from that, do you know what the most irritating thing is? The use of the question mark: Giacobbo puts a question mark on everything, because it’s different to say "the end of the world" and "the end of the world?" because in the first case you give a verdict while in the second you can always cleverly justify yourself by saying you only made a hypothesis, eh well, I’m not claiming it, just a hypothesis! Like saying "the Nazca lines were made by aliens?", "Atlantis is under Bergamo?", "The little flowers are actually mutant monsters ready to kill us all?", "The Egyptians were flat and walked sideways?"... See, thanks to the use of the question mark, it's permissible to say any nonsense, since you're always in the realm of hypotheses... but in the meantime, you've occupied the airwaves and filled the mind of the innocent and defenseless listener with crap. If this isn’t a crime.
@dlf: the owner of that blog is Betty Moore, who is bitter against ANYTHING, I mean ANYTHING, huh. For 75% of what she criticizes, she's absolutely right (especially because she really informs herself well and thoroughly), but she often targets even the few good things that exist, and honestly, every time I go to her blog, I take what she writes with a grain of salt because I haven’t found a single thing she likes; it seems the entire world disgusts her. In any case, if she takes aim at something that annoys you too, rest assured that no one will demolish and smear it better than she does. ;)
