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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOrange Is The New Black’ Star Duped Into Narrating Film That Says The Sun Revolves Around The Earth
http://thinkprogress.org/culture/2014/04/08/3424505/kate-mulgrew-duped/The newly-released trailer for The Principle promises film audiences commentary from prominent scientists and features the recognizable voice of former Star Trek: Voyager star Kate Mulgrew narrating. But while the onetime Starfleet captain announces that everything we think we know about our universe is wrong, it appears that everything she and several of the worlds top cosmologists thought about the film was also incorrect: they now say they were tricked into participation in a film on the widely-debunked geocentrism theory (that the Earth is, in fact, the center of universe and that the sun really revolves around it).
On Monday, Raw Story reported that the film, funded by noted geocentrist and Holocaust skeptic Robert Sungenis, featured narration by Mulgrew a staunch Democrat and a star of the Netflix hit Orange Is The New Black.
Soon, it became clear that the trailer if not the film itself was a misleading cut-and-paste job, relying on out-of-context clips and contributions by people who were not aware of the films true point.
Tuesday morning, Dr. Lawrence M. Krauss of Arizona State University tweeted that he had not consented to participate in the film and strongly opposed its message: For all who asked: Some clips of me apparently were mined for movie on geocentricism. So stupid does disservice to word nonsense. Ignore it.
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My question is how do these people get dupe?
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Orange Is The New Black’ Star Duped Into Narrating Film That Says The Sun Revolves Around The Earth (Original Post)
diabeticman
Apr 2014
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I disn't think about editing that would make sense for Mulgrew but what about the scientist
diabeticman
Apr 2014
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JJChambers
(1,115 posts)1. Perhaps...
They are given a script with certain lines in certain places that, in the context of the script, make sense, but when edited and spliced together, form the anti-science muck that is being peddled.
diabeticman
(3,121 posts)2. I disn't think about editing that would make sense for Mulgrew but what about the scientist
edit as well?