biggest story of of the year
If not the century. Physics is my life. Physicists as an occupational group tend to be pretty straightforward people. Who has the time for such nonsense as this, when we are at the cusp of proving our point, and the work and the data streams are intense? Real Scientists have no use at all for the Lysenkoist bullshit that is passing as 'science' in the political sphere. There's just no time. I'll stake my life and my career on it. (Easy for me to say, under the cloak of web anonymity) The thing is, results come from BIG projects, which use BIG machines. (guess my field) Big stuff requires Big Money, which is by nature political. In order to wheedle the funding necessary to keep going, an amount of political kiss-assery may be necessary. Your sails accomodate the prevailing winds if you want to reach your destination.
But the bluff has been called, and the cards are on the table (less the ones still hidden up the sleeves). Science is science and not an agenda; some amount of healing will occur, but regaining the trust of the public, who magnanimously provide the necessary funding, especially concerning topics arcane and exotic, will be hard work. Work that a physics major probably hasn't considered.
Hardly...the lame-stream media will ignore it.
It’s a big story the media will ignore infavor of kissing Al Gore’s bum.