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Fake Human Sacrifice at CERN

posted by takyon on Saturday August 20 2016, @10:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the science-rites dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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: 3, Informative) by aristarchus on Sunday August 21 2016, @01:08AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Sunday August 21 2016, @01:08AM (#390811) Journal

    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.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday August 21 2016, @03:59AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday August 21 2016, @03:59AM (#390873) Journal
    You know what else is complete fiction? The novel you just mentioned by name. By definition.

  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday August 21 2016, @05:04AM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Sunday August 21 2016, @05:04AM (#390901) Journal

    The novel isn't fictional either: You can buy it in real bookshops.

    The novel is fiction, though: The events it describes are fictional.

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    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

    by coolgopher (1157) on Sunday August 21 2016, @06:11AM (#390919)

    Sounds like a case of the Thomas Theorem [wikipedia.org].

    • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday August 21 2016, @11:56AM

      by maxwell demon (1608) on Sunday August 21 2016, @11:56AM (#390996) Journal

      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. ;-)

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      The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.