On 30-6-2009 18:53, Gilles Tran wrote:
> "Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> a écrit dans le message de 
> news:4a4a38fd$1@news.povray.org...
>> No, but Sagan and Feynman and the other scientists who talked about it 
>> have admitted they made the whole thing up.

I never heard that story.

> The WP page about nuclear winter seems to indicate that while the 
> concept is debated it's still supported by contemporary research (what 
> is under debate is how dramatic it would be, which is what one would 
> expect from a mathematical model) and that the main critic was a guy 
> writing survival books. Also, there's a paper here 
> http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/88spp.html about the 
> comments by Dyson, Feynman and others where the author re-interviewed 
> them a few years later with interesting results. In a nutshell, just 
> like creationism and global warming today, it seems that this was 
> instrumentalised in the US for local political gain by the usual 
> suspects, which is probably why these "controversies" don't seem to 
> cross the Atlantic and Pacific (or lose considerable strength when they 
> arrive on the other side).

but that may be because they didn't.
Here we also have that ugly beast of truth on the internet rearing it's 
head. Who can we believe?
Interesting story nevertheless.

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