I'm not going to get into a peeing contest about the grammar used, my degree is in math, not english so I will stick to things I have a background in.
Warren and I have both expressed our disappointment(for lack of a better term) in CERN 's response to Praga's work. Mine is their replacement of an unknown variable with a "worst case" quantity without signifying what they consider to be worst case. I am a big fan of analogies so I will use building in an earthquake zone. The magnitude of the potential earthquake is the obvious unknown. So when building the engineers consider the statistical probability of various magnitudes and replace that variable accordingly and then provide that information. ie. this building will have a .001% chance of collapsing in a magnitude 5, a .002% chance of collapsing in a magnitude 6 etc. on up. CERN however did not make any effort to explain what criteria they used as "worst case". That doesn't mean they don't have the worst case covered, it doesn't mean their assertions or mathematics are wrong. It just means they released a statement that scientifically isn't worth the paper printed. Replacing an unknown variable with a "worst case" quantity without defining "worst case" leaves that quantity as unknown.
For my part I think they are caught in a "catch 22". They've pushed theory as far as they can go and now need to begin testing that theory. Thats what good science is all about. Unfortunately they can not provide the 100% assurance of safety that the public would like, because noone has done these experiments. I want them to go ahead with testing, but am unwilling to call the alarmists idiots. CERN in my opinion has not and cannot provide that 100% safe guarantee. I believe that they have done everything possible to safeguard the public because they are scientists not suicidal dimwits. I have chosen to trust them, but feel they do themselves and the public a disservice by continually releasing safety statements that are so fault ridden and contradictory that even an idiot like me can shred them.