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Storytime with Megan Fox: Field Museum's 'Fake Science' Exposed
"Listen to how dumb this sounds." South suburban woman becomes talk of the Internet with her video critique of Chicago's Field Museum.
Snarky bloggers around the world are having a field day with Megan Fox’s recent visit to the Field Museum in Chicago, in which the home-schooling mom and activist mocks the science underpinning the museum’s “Evolving Planet” natural history exhibit.
“This makes no sense,” she says over and over again as she wanders from display to display, fossil to fossil, demanding some actual proof of evolution. “I want to know the truth.”
The Mokena woman’s video, posted to YouTube last month, has been viewed almost 1 million times. She describes the 30-minute video tour as “an audit for bias.” Fox is best known locally for her two-year crusade against the Orland Park Library and its policy that allows adults to view naked people and sex on library computers.
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The targets of Fox’s criticism and disdain have gotten bigger now. On Nov. 30, Fox invited fans of her ”Storytime with Megan Fox” Facebook page to help her decide where to go for her next bias audit — the Shedd Aquarium or the Adler Planetarium.
Her take on the silly science the folks at the Field Museum seem intent on cramming down our throats is inspired.
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“Listen to how dumb this sounds,” she says without irony as she reads from a display that describes how single-celled organisms evolved. “Just show me the animals. Don’t tell me you know how they came to be, because you don’t.”
She scoffs at the display about how life moved from water to land — “How do you know? This is all a guess.”
“It’s not like their fins fell off and they grew feet,” she says. “That’s what they want you to believe, that their fins fell off and then they grew some feet and started walking on the land. This is the dumbest theory I’ve ever heard in my whole life. It’s not good, it’s really not good. It’s bad. It’s very bad. Do you know how complex feet are?”
And early man? Just forget about it.
”Nobody considers that Neanderthals could just be people with big foreheads … it doesn’t prove anything!”
As she walks into a room filled with dinosaur fossils, Fox takes aim at a labcoat-wearing scientist at the Indianapolis Children’s Museum who crushed her children’s sense of wonderment.
“There is a lab where you can watch them taking the bones out of the casts,” Fox says, “and they have a skull on display that is clearly a dragon’s. Horns, long snout, big pointy teeth. ...
“There’s no evidence yet of fire-breathing dragons ... but there’s all these stories people have written about dragons.”
Dragons have horns. Like this.
Everyone needs to keep an open mind, she urges. Her Facebook fans certainly are.
“May I just say, your insight about what’s inconsistent in museums is brilliant,” writes one. “I like your video where you explained dinosaurs are dragons — I think a lot of people needed to hear that.”
Yes, yes we did. Thank you. Because a world in which Neanderthals with big foreheads kept dinosaurs as pets would be awesome.
Here’s a Teaser to a New Megan Fox Audit: The Brookfield Zoo
Fox posted this to YouTube Tuesday, Dec. 2: “Teaser trailer of Megan Fox’s December 2014 audit of the Brookfield Zoo for propaganda, misinformation and bad science. Stay tuned for the full audit video coming soon as Megan Fox exposes lies, untruths, and deception in Chicago’s zoological community.”
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