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Originally Posted by Salty
That doesn't change that science remains responsible for initiating fear. I think some scientists are real poor at PR.
It seems to me, that LHC PR thinks there's no danger, in which to put the world. I'm not arguing that.
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No,
science does not initiate fear. It are the thoughts of uninformed people, who decide that something could be wrong, and are insensitive to counter arguments, that initiate fear in the masses, by spreading the word that "the world is going to end."
THIS IT NOT GOING TO BE A PLANET X THREAD - THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE
The best example for this is the Planet X/Nibiru fear mongering by Nancy Lieder and cohorts, who predicted that this planet/brown dwarf was going to pass by the Earth, flip the Earth over, destroying 90% of mankind etc. etc. May 2003 came and went, with no Planet X passing by the Earth, but do these fear mongerers admit that they were wrong? NO, of course not, the aliens from Zeta Reticuli have most likely diverted Nibiru from its path and now it suddenly will happen in 2012 when the Mayan calender "ends."
Let's face it, a big part of the world population is
dumb (if not stupid) when people start to believe stuff like "the Earth is already rotating faster, a day only has 16 hours nowadays" or "Nibiru is already pulling magnetically at the Earth, you can see that the Sun is in a different position than it should be." And lots and lots more of that nonsense.
This does not come from
science, because science tries to explain stuff to the people, this comes from people who get a kick out of doomsday scenarios.