Brad DeLong picks up on some nonsense in Businessweek:
Kevin "Dow 36000" Hassett of the American Enterprise Institute calls for the USAF to bomb both France and Switzerland, hoping to get the scientists in their tunnels before they can destroy the earth:
Follow the link to DeLong's site if you want to read the original piece, which trots out Oxford Professors of Philosophy and a University of North Dakota Law Professor to explain why the LHC is going to destroy the world:
[T]he collider’s energy could induce a catastrophic event. A brilliant review of the risks associated with the experiment by University of North Dakota law professor Eric Johnson.... Oxford University’s Toby Ord, a philosopher by training, adds... [i]t may be that the models that we use to make predictions about the possibility of catastrophe are themselves flawed.... Ord estimates that the odds of the LHC producing a disaster are between one in 1,000 and one in 1 million... the likely benefits from this experiment... [cannot]... justify accepting a cost that includes a real risk of the Earth’s destruction....
The solution? The same one that has served us so well in the past:
Right now... [if] the U.S. wanted to stop the LHC experiment, it would have no recourse short of military action...
And here I thought it was only evolutionary biologists who got bad press.
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