CERN physicists recieving death threats from anti-science terrorists

[ristin]

CERN scientists recieve death threats
http://www.giagia.co.uk/2008/09/06/cern-scientists-receive-death-threats/
Anyone following the CERN switch-on in the media may have seen the article in the Telegraph this week about how some physicists have been getting death threats. Brian was quoted as saying, “Anyone who thinks the LHC will destroy the world is a twat.”

As of this writing, teh interwebs is alight with conversations about his quote and - again as of this writing- it’s the fourth most popular Digg. Brian’s been getting requests for interviews from all over the planet.

There are about three people behind these scares. They have no knowledge, but very loud voices. Anyone who has been following blog posts about CERN and the LHC will have seen JTankers pop up everywhere spewing shite. He always refers to the main centre of this crap, the LHC Concerns site.

The other day the “death threats” article was written about there. Brian responded:


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Comments

[ponypig.livejournal.com]

That is because you are logically aware of the facts and as such have a perfectly valid opinion, however the people on the bus this morning were stupid school kids whom were saying the same thing when i was in school about some other random date. You I like and respect, annoying kids on the bus i dont!