# Were there ever any apologies for the hysteria over the LHC? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 6, 2011, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-there-ever-any-apologies-for-the-hysteria-over-the-lhc/602038 "2011-11-06T06:48:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 16
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2011, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-there-ever-any-apologies-for-the-hysteria-over-the-lhc/602038/16 "2011-11-06T20:22:01Z")
> [@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: > [@Are we worried about the Large Hadron Collider being turned on?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-worried-about-the-large-hadron-collider-being-turned-on/462441/20): > > 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? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-there-ever-any-apologies-for-the-hysteria-over-the-lhc/602038)._