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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:
More text, links and references in the original article.
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:
More text, links and references in the original article.
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Date: 2008-09-10 09:12 pm (UTC)The chances of the LHC operating outside of the established theory are vanishingly small, and if they do then the chance of destroying the planet are about the same as the LHC summoning forth the hypothesized "invisible pink unicorn".
http://www.geocities.com/ipu_temple/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Pink_Unicorn
http://www.invisiblepinkunicorn.com/ipu/home.html
Anyway the "ending the world" claim has been made before. When the theory of gravity was being developed people said we would fall off the earth if we questioned god's will to keep our feet planted on the ground. People were burned at the stake for suggesting the planet was round, and other people were burned at the stake for suggesting the Earth orbits the Sun. When people split the atom for the first time we had the same hysteria. Vaccinations remain under attack for violating god's will (even though the gospels tell us Jesus was a fan of healing the sick). Evolution is still being challenged by religious groups, some masquerading as 'scientifically motivated' and renaming creationism as intelligent design to try to win credibility.
Or in other words...theists claim to already know the answer to all the mysteries of the universe, and to try to preserve their control over a superstitious populace they oppose any effort to either increase the population's understanding of the universe (as that diminishes the public's reliance on the church for answers) and also any effort to discover the truth behind these mysteries (even though doing so has hugely benefited mankind).
Religion gave us the dark ages, science lifted mankind up from the dark ages. I know which method I prefer.