Posted: May 06, 2012 9:54 am
So there's a perfectly normal article on the 'supermoon' visible at the moment.
It talks a bit about the phenomenon and perigrees and the like; has a quote from the Royal Astronomical Society... and then suddenly, for no apparent reason whatsoever, it devotes a paragraph to informing the reader that:
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I really have no idea where that came from or who decided that was an appropriately useful factlet to round off the article!
It talks a bit about the phenomenon and perigrees and the like; has a quote from the Royal Astronomical Society... and then suddenly, for no apparent reason whatsoever, it devotes a paragraph to informing the reader that:
Scientists have dismissed the idea the perigee could cause strange behaviour - like lycanthropy - or natural disasters.
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I really have no idea where that came from or who decided that was an appropriately useful factlet to round off the article!