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Ringlestetter letter: Science

We all know how the corrupt scientist make stuff up just to get more fake research funding. I am convinced that this whole eclipse thing was a put-up job. They are trying to make us believe they actually understand the mathematics of the orbits of the planets, moons and other celestial objects. I wasn’t fooled for a minute. But give these scientist credit, they are a clever bunch. They have most people convinced that this eclipse thing actually occurred. My guess is, they filmed this on a movie set in Hollywood, like the moon landings, then somehow projected this onto the sky . This was just more of their science shenanigans, like man-made climate change. They could never know anything about that either. This is all fake science. But we will not be fooled.

If they can pull off a scam like this eclipse thing, we are giving them too much funding already.

We should cut their funding and make them get real jobs. Maybe then they will finally contribute something of value to society rather than making us look like a bunch of fools braying at the moon.

Richard Ringlesttetter, Boise

This story was originally published August 31, 2017 at 11:16 PM with the headline "Ringlestetter letter: Science."

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