英国のタブロイド紙が占星術師の意見ベースの馬鹿記事を掲載

Bad Astronomy (DiscoverBlog)によれば、毎度おなじみ英国のタブロイド紙Daily Mail(2011/03/11)が東日本震災についての馬鹿者な占星術師の意見を載せている。

記事タイトルが...

==>Is the Japanese earthquake the latest natural disaster to have been caused by a 'supermoon'?

一応、科学者のコメントは取っているのだけれど...

Professor George Helffrich, a seismologist at the University of Bristol was equally dismissive.　'Complete nonsense. The moon has no significant effect on earthquake triggering.　If the moon triggers "big" earthquakes, it would trigger the many of millions of times more "small" earthquakes that happen daily. There is no time dependence of those; hence no moon effect.'

University of Bristolの地震学者George Helffrich教授も否定的だ。「まったくのナンセンス。月は地震のトリガに有意な効果を持たない。月が"大"地震の引き金を引くのなら、日々起きている数百万回の"小"地震の引き金も引いているはずだ。地震発生にそんな時間依存はない。したがって、月は影響していない。

記事本体はこのありさま...

Astrologers predicted that on March 19 - a week tomorrow - the so-called 'supermoon' will be closer to Earth than at any time since 1992, just 221,567 miles away, and that its gravitational pull will bring chaos to Earth
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However the 'supermoon' date is still eight days away. But those that adhere to this particular belief could claim that this was still close enough for there to be some kind of effect.
Two days ago, in an interview with ABC radio discussing the potential impact of the March 19 supermoon, astrologer Richard Nolle, who first coined the term in 1979, said he was convinced that lunar perigees cause natural disasters on Earth.

'Supermoons have a historical association with strong storms, very high tides, extreme tides and also earthquakes,' he said.
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However, despite this wall of doubt there is a small and vocal minority of astrologers that insist a supermoon or 'lunar perigee' does exist.

地震学者よりも占星術師の意見をもとに記事を書いてしまう、まさしくタブロイド紙。