French scientist's photo of ‘distant star’ was chorizo
> A photo tweeted by a famous French physicist supposedly of Proxima Centauri by the James Webb Space Telescope was actually a slice of chorizo.<p>> …<p>> Klein told French news outlet Le Point that his intention had been to educate people about fake news online<p>While I respect the position that people should always check sources, “person famous in their field posts a lie about something well within their field, then tut tuts when people outside their field believe the expert” feels a bit too smug to me.