IDoNotGetIt

Fox News isn’t even trying to look like a responsible news reporting agency any more. I caught this article today.

Apparently, they found three physicist who believe that the micro black holes that could, theoretically, be produced by the LHC could, theoretically, last longer than the microseconds first predicted, perhaps even longer than 1 second.  However, they also concluded that “the growth of black holes to catastrophic size does not seem possible”.  Well here is FoxNews’ response to that:

FoxNews.com can think of a few other things that didn’t seem possible once — the theory of continental drift, the fact that rocks fall from the sky, the notion that the Earth revolves around the sun, the idea that scientists could be horribly wrong.

If the worst comes to pass, and there’s now a slightly greater chance that it might, at least it might explain why we’ve never heard from extraterrestrial civilizations: Maybe they built Large Hadron Colliders of their own.

I don’t know where they got that rocks falling from the sky thing from, at what point in history did anyone argue that rocks don’t fall from the sky?  Regardless, these are still false analogies.  These particle bombardments happen all the time in nature.  The LHC is just recreating this in an environment that allows us to collect information that will allow us to understand the nature of reality.  These constant, weak arguments against the LHC are getting tiresome.

Honestly, though, the article title was the best, “Scientists Not So Sure ‘Doomsday Machine’ Won’t Destroy World”.  So the scientist have built a doomsday machine that they didn’t think would work but now they’re not so sure that it’s a dud after all; they should be happy right?

This crap makes me sick, but the real question is why is FoxNews disguising its opinion articles as news articles?