A world-renowned French physicist was forced to apologize after tweeting out a picture of a slice of chorizo, claiming it was a picture of a distant star taken by the James Webb Space Telescope.
Etienne Klein decided to have some fun with his nearly 92,000 followers, tweeting out what seemed to be a high-resolution image of a star.
Photo de Proxima du Centaure, l’étoile la plus proche du Soleil, située à 4,2 année-lumière de nous.Ce niveau de détails… Un nouveau monde se dévoile jour après jour. pic.twitter.com/88UBbHDQ7ZJust an hour later, after letting his followers indulge in the magnificence of the supposed extraterrestrial image, Klein replied to the tweet with a joking response.
He was forced to clarify further several hours later, with many believing that he himself, a respected scientist of his field, had been duped by such a simple prank. He told his followers that actually it was meant as a joke all along, both for his own amusement and to teach a lesson about trusting arguments from positions of authority.
Au vu de certains commentaires, je me sens obligé de préciser que ce tweet montrant un prétendu cliché de Proxima du Centaure relevait d’une forme d’amusement. Apprenons à nous méfier des arguments d’autorité autant que de l’éloquence spontanée de certaines images….Most of the responses to his original tweet delighted in the humor of the prank.
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