Eric Siegel says, in the context of museums and theme parks, "Really,
museums are quite distinct from theme parks. For one thing theme parks tell
sanitized lies."    I think he is being very much too harsh and is perhaps
guilty of precisely what he is accusing theme parks for doing.  Theme parks
do tend to overgeneralize and simplify but that is not the same as a
malicious effort to misrepresent.  Some theme parks do consciously
misrepresent, as some museums do as well, but to grossly generalize as Eric
has done is simply not being constructive.

Kevin McCartney, Ph.D.
Associate Prof., Geology
Director, Northern Maine Museum of Science
University of Maine at Presque Isle
Presque Isle, ME  04769