Were there ever any apologies for the hysteria over the LHC?

[AClockworkMelon]

@Half_Man_Half_Wit

I suspect that the people who raised these ‘concerns’ in the first place, while factually wrong, still consider themselves to have been morally right, because what if? Somebody has to reign in those crazy scientists fooling around with the very fabric of nature, haphazardly risking billions of lives in the exploration of arcane matters of importance only to their megalomaniacal pursuits, madly cackling over complicated switchboards with wildly blinking lights and twitching scales emitting sinister hums… Because the most important thing the ignorant are ignorant of is their own ignorance. This thread, in places, provides a splendid example.

I had a good chuckle reading Argent Towers’ posts in that thread:

@Argent_Towers

The fact that people are able to joke about something like this truly boggles my mind. Yet in any thread about it, at least half of all the posts seem to be jokes. Maybe this is some extreme form of gallows humor, I don’t know.

Yeah, maybe you’re more likely to die from being hit by a car or choking on food. Does that mean that you should DELIBERATELY go walk into the middle of traffic, or shove a huge piece of food down your throat and choke yourself?