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Culture, history and society

Hollywood disaster movies: what they signal about science

09 Mar 2022 Robert P Crease
Taken from the March 2022 issue of Physics World, where it appeared under the headline "Disaster signalling".

Robert P Crease wonders what lessons we can learn from movies about comets and asteroids heading towards Earth

Don't Look Up film still
We have a problem Why does the scientists’ message of an impending comet disaster not get through in Don’t Look Up? (Courtesy: Niko Tavernise/Netflix)
“Look up…get your head out of your ass Listen to the goddamn qualified scientists” Those aren

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Robert P Crease is a professor in the Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, US and writes the monthly Critical Point column for Physics World, robertpcrease.com, e-mail robert.crease@stonybrook.edu. His latest book is The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory
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