Mars Fever: Media, Belief, and the Making of a Modern American Myth
To the point
Mass imagination can distort scientific credibility, as Percival Lowell’s Mars claims—rooted in Giovanni Schiaparelli’s canali and amplified by H. G. Wells, Nikola Tesla, and the media—demonstrate, a pattern echoed today in Elon Musk’s SpaceX Mars vision that inspires exploration yet risks deluding the public and overlooking earthly injustices.
