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more about #badscience more comments → Roklimber: It saddens me beyond description that it's necessary for very busy people at a real research facility to address what should be obvious to everyone, t... more » hagridore: Oh fuck! Did they just debunk a science FICTION TV show? Learn 'em good. more » eve804: what about the particle accelerator at CERN that IS beginning to use protons, "thus increasing the intensity"? [public.web.cern.ch] more » Jesse Astle: So... the lesson of Flashforward is never to science ever again? more » MrThunderfield: And here I was going around thinking flashforwards were actually possible. Thanks a bunch. more » icy_one: Mark Hogan then went on to say, "We are not 100% sure, however, on whether our particle accelerator is responsible for altering the brains of the cast... more » Chuck: The show is full of crap, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't extend it a bit of SLAC... more » Dr Emilio Lizardo: Stuff like this is why I can't watch Doctor shows. When you find yourself yelling at the screen, it's time to change the channel. Bad enough when it... more » Willravel: In related news, Indonesia has called BS on time-traveling, semi-conscious islands inhabited by pseudo-gods. Apparently, Lost is full of crap, too. more » Oscar Ernesto Regalado: There's a lot of anger here for a fictional television show. You can't really have it both ways, you know. You can't have fantastical sci/fi and compl... more » mordicai: Oh fiction-- sometimes, you don't tell the truth! You scamp, you rogue. more » nagumi: Actually, my impression of the show is that the accelerator experiment is not responsible for the blackout, but occurred at the same moment. Even the ... more » Matthew Anderson: This raises interesting dilemmas, like which is more plausible: A particle accelerator causing a planetwide blackout, or Dominic Monaghan playing a me... more » Spaceknight: this would be annoying if I for one moment actually believed they had revealed the *actual* cause of the flashforwards. Put it to the Sequel Test. L... more » Blue_Thark: "Although we can use particle accelerators to essentially look backward in time to recreate the conditions of the universe soon after the big bang, th... more » -
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Physicists to FlashForward: You Are Full Of Crap
On physics-gone-haywire show FlashForward, characters recently suggested that an accelerator in Palo Alto, CA might have caused a worldwide blackout that killed millions by conducting "proton-driven plasma-wakefield acceleration" experiments. Now scientists at the real accelerator in Palo Alto have responded. More » -
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Everything that Cures or Prevents Cancer (According to the Media)
Can't recall which items the media claims prevent cancer and those that cause it? Kill or Cure takes aim at bad science journalism with its tongue-in-cheek index of items the Daily Mail links to cancer. [via Metafilter, Image from SMBC] -
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CERN Is The Front Line In Science Fiction's War Against Science
CERN, home of the notorious Large Hadron Collider, threatened destruction (via anti-matter) in the recent movie Angels And Demons and (via ghosts) in a recent Torchwood radio play. But CERN is just one example of how science fiction demonizes science. More » -
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Clever New Breast Gadgets Can't Support Their Claims
A bevy of terrible contraptions have been concocted lately for the benefit of our breasts. Here are a few of the more recent "WTF get the away from me" over-the-shoulder boulder-holder gadgets. More » -
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Teen with Home Chemistry Lab Arrested for Meth, Bombs
A Canadian college student majoring in chemistry built himself a home lab - and discovered that trying to do science in your own home quickly leads to accusations of drug-making and terrorism. -
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Computer-Generated Paper Accepted for Prestigious Technical Conference
A prankster who submitted a computer-generated research paper to the International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering discovered that not only was his fake paper accepted - its "author" is to chair a panel. -
