{"id":1959,"date":"2011-07-19T03:08:33","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T10:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=1959"},"modified":"2011-07-19T08:37:13","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T15:37:13","slug":"cern%e2%80%99s-last-media-gag-the-korean-two-fingers-gang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/cern%e2%80%99s-last-media-gag-the-korean-two-fingers-gang","title":{"rendered":"CERN\u2019s Last Media Gag: The Korean Two Fingers Gang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The story of \u201cOur Last Hour\u201d (Sir Martin Rees) has a latest twist. Since CERN cannot muster a single scientific argument or a single renowned scientist to defend its use of force against scientific evidence, it recruited a gang of anonymous science kids to defend its cause by pretending to ask a scientific question which, if taken seriously, would have destroyed the scientific reputation of their only planet-widely visible adversary.<\/p>\n<p>The Telemach theorem, which pits Einstein against CERN, was to be discredited, not by scientific argument but by luring its proponent into taking a pseudoscientific question disguised as a genuine concern seriously: If the size ratio between two fingers says something about the ratio between two little guys, what is the ratio between one finger and one guy? <\/p>\n<p>The media cannot understand, of course, but every citizen on the planet will. Science has lost its credit by visibly misleading the planet \u2013 unless CERN apologizes immediately for its onslaught on everyone\u2019s life. The two fingers become a world-wide symbol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story of \u201cOur Last Hour\u201d (Sir Martin Rees) has a latest twist. Since CERN cannot muster a single scientific argument or a single renowned scientist to defend its use of force against scientific evidence, it recruited a gang of anonymous science kids to defend its cause by pretending to ask a scientific question which, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}