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