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From: kwh@bentley.UUCP (KW Heuer)
Newsgroups: net.sci
Subject: Re: "scientific illiteracy" in the media
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Date: Wed, 14-May-86 21:01:27 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 14 21:01:27 1986
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In article <337@dg_rtp.UUCP> dg_rtp!throopw (Wayne Throop) writes:
>Don't worry.  The media made up these terms on the fly...

Oh good.  Now I can add "nuclear fire" to my collection, which already
includes "flying saucer", "test tube baby", and "star wars".

(The UFO allegedly *moved* like a saucer (skipping over water); in vitro
fertilization occurs in a Petri dish; I see no connection between the SW
movie and Strategic Defense/High Frontier.)

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ihnp4!bentley!kwh), The Walking Lint