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From Phys.org (AFP):
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has launched an investigation into a video filmed at night on its Geneva campus depicting a mock ritual human sacrifice, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.
The bizarre video which has circulated online for days shows several individuals in black cloaks gathering in a main square at Europe's top physics lab, in what appears to be a re-enactment of an occult ceremony.
The video includes the staged "stabbing" of a woman.
[...] "CERN does not condone this type of spoof, which can give rise to misunderstandings about the scientific nature of our work,"
Publish or perish ... it seems like some may take things too far.
Also at The Guardian.
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(Score: 2) by VLM on Saturday August 20 2016, @11:43PM
How do they know it is fake?
Sounds like something out of one of my favorite Umberto Eco novels.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday August 20 2016, @11:51PM
It's not fake because it sounds like something out of one of your fictional novels? ;)
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(Score: 3, Informative) by aristarchus on Sunday August 21 2016, @01:08AM
Foucault's Pendulum, great novel. Part of the main point of the plot is that all that alt-right woo-woo new age religious stuff (and supply-side economics) is complete fiction, but the people who believe in it are dangerous none the less. Like Trump supporters. By the way, both Foucault and his pendulum are not fictional.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday August 21 2016, @03:59AM
(Score: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Sunday August 21 2016, @04:55AM
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(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday August 21 2016, @05:04AM
The novel isn't fictional either: You can buy it in real bookshops.
The novel is fiction, though: The events it describes are fictional.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Sunday August 21 2016, @06:11AM
Sounds like a case of the Thomas Theorem [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday August 21 2016, @11:56AM
The theorem is obviously sexist, as only men are said to have that ability. ;-)
But then, I'll have to test this: I'll define an imaginary gold bar in my hand as real, and see if the consequence (I'm getting money from selling it) are indeed real. ;-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.