{"id":2347,"date":"2009-05-01T08:39:09","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T15:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2009\/05\/01\/daily-show-explains-the-lhc\/"},"modified":"2009-05-01T08:39:09","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T15:39:09","slug":"daily-show-explains-the-lhc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/01\/daily-show-explains-the-lhc\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Show Explains the LHC"},"content":{"rendered":"

You can always count on the Daily Show. As John presaged<\/a> earlier this month, correspondent John Oliver visited CERN to do a report on the LHC, which has finally appeared<\/a>. Watch as John Ellis lays the science smackdown!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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The best thing about it is that, once again, Jon Stewart and company have taken an issue that completely flummoxed most major news media — in this case, the purported danger that the LHC will destroy the world — and actually get it right. In addition to visiting CERN itself, Oliver scored an interview with Walter Wagner<\/a> (“graduated UC Berkeley with a Minor in Physics”), originator of much of the hysteria and lawsuits. You’ll get to hear Wagner explain that the probability the LHC will destroy the world is — wait for it — fifty percent. You know, because when you have two things that can possibly happen, obviously each has half the probability, right? I don’t want to say too much about Walter Wagner, because, if nothing else, the guy is really fond of a good lawsuit. So I have no comment whatsoever on Walter Wagner’s competence or sanity. But I do know people who are utterly incompetent and completely insane, who resemble Walter Wagner in certain ways. I’ll stop there.<\/p>\n

See, major news media? It’s not that hard!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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