Oliver Kamm has some fun with the conspiracy nuts and doom-mongers over at his blog. I particularly like this quote he takes from a professor Brian Cox regarding the “Big Bang experiment” later this week, as well as his comments afterwards:
Professor Cox clearly has a way with pungent summary, for in an article for The Telegraph he adds: “The LHC [Large Hadron Collider] has captured the public imagination, which is wonderful because scientific exploration on this scale is a prerequisite for our survival as a species in this dangerous and challenging universe, and yet a significant fraction of the population would usually rather watch The X Factor. A slight irritant is that a small but vocal faction of nutters with a Frankenstein complex and membership of the "Relativity is a Zionist conspiracy" forum on the internet think that banging two hydrogen nuclei together will fulfil Nostradamus's prophecy (Century 4, Quatrain 67) that everyone should leave Geneva in the year that the air becomes very dry. He obviously never visited Manchester."
Nostradamus, of course. (But it's interesting that Professor Cox makes no mention of the Bilderberg Group, the Trilateral Commission and the Freemasons. What's he trying to hide? Who's paying him?)
The Daily Mail, meanwhile, covers the same story with a headline that might feature in a series of "Great Historical Questions to Which the Answer is No". The report is entitled "Are We All Going to Die Next Wednesday?"
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