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| Kodak and Fairies...
Not long after WW1, a bored young girl in England carefully cut around some illustrations of fairies from a book, and gently pinned them to foliage in her local woods. Then she took her Box Brownie and took pictures of them. It created a nine-days wonder: "photographic evidence showing the existence of fairies." Arthur Conan Doyle (a major sceptic and debunker of "contact the dead" scams) became involved... and was convinced. He took the photographs to Kodak and asked "Are these fakes?" And Kodak unhesitatingly replied "Yes they are." As the leading experts on photogrpahy at the time, their reasons were kind of disappointing. "There are no such things as fairies, therefore there can't be pictures of them, therefore these are fake pictures". Sixty or so years later, the young lady came clean and admitted the hoax, which she'd never intended to get quite so out of hand.
I don't for a moment think Juicebusted CAN deliver. But a brief examination of the megabytes worth of forum space is as disappointing as Kodak's reply in 1919. For the handful of people who know what they're talking about, there are literally hundreds who do NOT know, but feel that they just HAVE to share their opinions with us anyway. So hey guys... if you really DON'T have anything to say... how about NOT saying it? Cluttering the forums concerned with dross that makes the REAL posts harder to find isn't helping. Or rather it IS helping - helping Juicebusted. |
