[geocentrism] Negative parallax
- From: "Dr. Neville Jones" <ntj005@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 13:38:12 +0100 (BST)
In an article in the ?Biblical Astronomer,? Winter 2001, entitled ?Hipparchos
on Parallaxes,? Gerardus Bouw states, ?In the early decades of the twentieth
century, astronomers thought negative parallaxes an embarrassment, and would
not publish them. But in the middle of the century, astronomers started to use
a technique called ?statistical parallaxes? for stars too distant to have
measurable true parallaxes. At that time it was pointed out that the absence of
published negative parallaxes was skewing the statistics, making statistical
parallaxes less accurate. As a result, negative parallax results were collected
and have been published ever since. Note that it is in astronomers? best
interest to publish negative parallaxes, so there is no incentive to hide them.?
Let?s have some fun and rewrite this paragraph: Astronomers are paid by the
taxpayers to collect data. They choose to hide some of this data. They know the
real truth and the taxpayers are too stupid to realize that 40%, 50%, 60%, ? of
the astronomers results are to be simply ignored. Until, that is, the
astronomers come up with a technique that better fits their ?knowledge? and
?understanding?. Then, having already decided what the conclusion of their new
technique must be, they find that the rubbish data has to be retrieved from the
dustbin, as it has suddenly become indispensable.
Question: Would you trust such an astronomer with your life savings?
(By the way, ?Hipparchos? was a supposedly geostationary, astrometry satellite.)
Neville.
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