Some people are just stupid...

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Yeah... Apparently some people still believe that the LHC is going to kill us all, despite repeated assurances that it won’t. Most of the scientists involved will be at CERN, and it’s obviously in their best interests for it to not blow up in their faces.

It’s to be expected that people might be a little concerned, but this is ridiculous. This is symptomatic of the mistrust of scientists by many people. People don’t like what they don’t understand, and very few understand what CERN are doing (at least, not in any great detail). However, this kind of attitude towards science as a whole is detrimental, as evidenced by the David Nutt affair of a few weeks ago (which should have been a much bigger deal than it was). We need to let the physicists and engineers do their work, especially since all that money has been spent on it already, it’d be nice to see some results at some point.