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  • Mayim Bialik Fired As 'Jeopardy!' Host After Voicing Support For Israel

    Mayim Bialik Fired As 'Jeopardy!' Host After Voicing Support For Israel

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    Mayim Bialik announced on Friday that she has been fired as one of the hosts of the “Jeopardy!” In the days since then, the game show has been accused of antisemitism due to the fact that Bialik’s firing came after she became an outspoken supporter of Israel in the wake of the October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks.

    Bialik Fired

    “As the holiday break begins in Hollywood, I have some ‘Jeopardy!’ news,” Bialik said in a statement. “Sony has informed that I will no longer be hosting the syndicated version of ‘Jeopardy!’”

    “I am incredibly honored to have been nominated for a Primetime Emmy for hosting this year and I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to have been a part of the ‘Jeopardy!’ family,” she continued. “For all of you who have supported me through this incredible journey and to the fans, contestants, writers, staff and crew of America’s Favorite Quiz Show, thank you.”

    The official “Jeopardy!” Instagram account responded by saying that Bialik “has announced she will no longer be hosting the syndicated version of Jeopardy!

    “We made the decision to have one host of the syndicated show next season to maintain continuity for our viewers, and Ken Jennings will be the sole host for syndicated ‘Jeopardy!,’” the show’s statement added, going on to say that the program’s executives “are truly grateful for all of Mayim’s contributions to ‘Jeopardy!,’ and we hope to continue to work with her on primetime specials.”

    Related: ‘Jeopardy’ Host Mayim Bialik Defends Israel As Her ‘Homeland’ – Slams Alma Mater UCLA For Anti-Semitism

    Social Media Users Fire Back

    Newsweek reported that social media users have since responded by accusing “Jeopardy!” of antisemitism, as many believe Bialik’s recent support of Israel may have something to do with her firing.

    “Antisemitism is not a good look on you. Mayim is Jewish and she have every right to defend her people without losing her job,” one social media user commented, with another adding, “Seriously?! Now that Jewish people need your support more than ever, you decide to fire her for standing up against antisemitism during one of the hardest times for Jewish people in history? SHAME on you!”

    “Category: Jew hate. Clue: firing someone talented because she against terror,” a third user wrote, with a fourth commenting, “She was the only reason to watch your show anyway. So much easier to say goodbye, understanding you’re anti Jewish. We support you Mayim.”

    Related: 700 Hollywood Stars Sign Open Letter In Support Of Israel

    Bialik’s Support Of Israel

    Bialik, who formerly starred on the sitcom “The Big Bang Theory,” has been outspoken about her support for Israel in recent months.

    “My heart is big. My heart can hold love for Israel, the homeland of the Jewish people,” she wrote on social media after the October 7 attacks. “My heart feels the immense pain and horror the Israeli people are experiencing and I share that pain. My heart feels fear because of the anti-Semitism moving through this world with no end in sight.”

    “My heart feels rage for the lack of unanimous global support for a swift return of the hostages taken by Hamas, the terrorist organization terrorizing Israelis and Palestinians alike,” she continued. “My heart can hold all of this. Can yours?”

    Weeks later, Bialik posted a video to social media in which she blasted her alma mater UCLA, claiming that the school isn’t doing enough to fight rampant antisemitism on its campus.

    “It is clear that there is a strain of antisemitism that is alive and well,” she said. “It is thriving at my Alma Mater (UCLA) where the chant ‘We want a Jewish genocide’ was echoed in the quad in front of Royce Hall.”

    “There is no excuse for calling for a genocide of an entire people. Period. Full stop,” Bialik added. “I’m no longer afraid to draw comparisons to the global attempt at an elimination of the Jewish people, which my grandparents escaped eastern Europe to flee.”

    “I’ve always believed that Israel was my homeland, and now I understand it more deeply than ever before,” Bialik concluded, ending her video by thanking those who have been supporting Jewish people.

    While there is no definitive proof that “Jeopardy!” fired Bialik because of her support of Israel, the timing of this certainly does seem suspect. What do you think about this? Let us know in the comments section.

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  • Images from the James Webb Telescope Do Not Disprove The Big Bang Theory

    Images from the James Webb Telescope Do Not Disprove The Big Bang Theory

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    The Big Bang theory is currently the most popular model we have for the birth of our universe. Observations on the expanding universe, as well as observations of Cosmic background radiation, lingering electromagnetic radiation from the Big Bang, have helped back this theory. However, rumors have spread on the internet that the newly released images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) somehow suggest the big bang is wrong. We find this claim to be mostly false. Although the spectacular images from JWST may have surprised scientists in how they might change theories on galaxy formation, they by no means negate the Big Bang theory.

    Much of the argument stems from an article written by Eric Lerner (author of the book “The Big Bang Never Happened”). Lerner’s article, published in IAI news, argues that the new James Webb Space Telescope images contradict The Big Bang Hypothesis. Lerner appears to suggest that the distant galaxies seen in the images are older than the Big Bang theory would allow since they seemed to resemble fully formed galaxies. However, the data from JWST suggest that galaxies form more quickly than we think, not that they necessarily contain elements from before the Big Bang or that the universe is not expanding. The observation of these well-formed galaxies at such an early time does not debunk a theory as well supported as the Big Bang. Lerner also cherrypicks quotes from astronomer Allison Kirkpatrick, who said in an article published in Nature, “Right now I find myself lying awake at three in the morning wondering if everything I’ve done is wrong.” Kirkpatrick has since explained that she was reacting in awe of what astronomers have learned from the first JWST images, not as proof of astronomers panicking that the Big Bang Theory has been debunked. In an article on CNET, Kirkpatrick suggests that images from JWST “support the Big Bang model because they show us that early galaxies were different than the galaxies we see today – they were much smaller!”

    As reported by Brian Koberlein at Universe Today…

    It’s a common misconception that redshift proves that galaxies are speeding away from us. They aren’t. Distant galaxies aren’t speeding through space. Space itself is expanding, putting greater distance between us. It’s a subtle difference, but it means that galactic redshift is caused by cosmic expansion, not relative motion. It also means that distant galaxies appear a bit larger than they would in a static universe. They are distant and tiny, but the expansion of space gives the illusion of them being larger. As a result, the surface brightness of distant galaxies dims only proportional to redshift.

    Professor Jason Steffen, a former NASA scientist who worked on the agency’s Kepler mission and an expert in astronomy/physics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, responds to the article questioning the Big Bang Hypothesis.

    In short, the evidence is still overwhelmingly in favor of a hot Big Bang as the origin of the universe.  There are many pieces of evidence that come together to motivate this model.  If the Big Bang were to be wrong, it would not likely be wrong for the reasons described, and it is not wrong because of any observations from JWST.

    While the origins of the model stem from observations of the expansion of the universe from galaxy redshifts (the Hubble Law), most of the detailed evidence for the Big Bang comes from the very early universe, the relative abundances of light elements, and the properties of the cosmic microwave background.  The processes that made these occurred within the first half-million years after the Big Bang.  The JWST images are looking at galaxies as they were a half-billion (or more) years after the Big Bang—a factor of 1000 later in time. 

    There is much more uncertainty with how galaxies form and how the first stars form, which are very complicated processes that involve lots of different physical effects, than there is about the first 500,000 years, which was a relatively simple hot plasma of Hydrogen and Helium ions.  (And before that, it was similar to the conditions in the core of the Sun, which we also understand.)

     

     

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