RNS Quote of the Day: 06/06/08

The cats at Counting Cats in Zanzibar found a MEMRI video which translated some supposed Islamic scientist on a talk show telling the Saudis exactly how Neil Armstrong discovered, and US government has covered up, that Mecca is “centrally located” on the planet, and is also the source of divine radiation.

Said cats had an opinion about that

I have heard some junk masquerading as science in my time but this takes the biscuit. I have an MSc in Astrophysics and this is just beautifully demented. It is truly in the category Wolfgang Pauli referred to as “not even wrong”. It is a heady mix of muddle, paranoia and nonsense. It’s not even fiskable. The astronomer Fritz Zwicky was a prickly sort who was fond of calling people he disliked “spherical bastards” meaning they were bastards from whatever angle you looked at them. This is spherical bollocks.

NickM in Islam – Counting Cats in Zanzibar

I found the site a couple weeks back and it is now a daily read.

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