Asking a Judge to Save the World, and Maybe a Whole Lot More

More fighting in Iraq. Somalia in chaos. People in this country can’t afford their mortgages and in some places now they can’t even afford rice.

None of this nor the rest of the grimness on the front page today will matter a bit, though, if two men pursuing a lawsuit in federal court in Hawaii turn out to be right. They think a giant particle accelerator that will begin smashing protons together outside Geneva this summer might produce a black hole or something else that will spell the end of the Earth — and maybe the universe. Link

McCain on Iraq

What would he do without Joe? link

Your drug is a heartbreaker

My mind was blown when a buddy informed me that Mendel, godfather of genetics, was... a fraud! From what I can tell, the great monk had little training in statistics so his data suffered mightily from confirmation bias. Basically, he observed the simple 3:1 ratio and then doctored his data to fit it exactly. Gregor! Say it ain't so! Here's a review of "The Great Betrayal: Fraud in Science," by Horace Freeland Judson, a book on various lowlights in scientific misconduct.