You can always count on the Daily Show. As John presaged earlier this month, correspondent John Oliver visited CERN to do a report on the LHC, which has finally appeared. Watch as John Ellis lays the science smackdown!
The best thing about it is that, once again, Jon Stewart and company have taken an issue that completely flummoxed most major news media -- in this case, the purported danger that the LHC will destroy the world -- and actually get it right. In addition to visiting CERN itself, Oliver scored an interview with Walter Wagner ("graduated UC Berkeley with a Minor in Physics"), originator of much of the hysteria and lawsuits. You'll get to hear Wagner explain that the probability the LHC will destroy the world is -- wait for it -- fifty percent. You know, because when you have two things that can possibly happen, obviously each has half the probability, right? I don't want to say too much about Walter Wagner, because, if nothing else, the guy is really fond of a good lawsuit. So I have no comment whatsoever on Walter Wagner's competence or sanity. But I do know people who are utterly incompetent and completely insane, who resemble Walter Wagner in certain ways. I'll stop there. See, major news media? It's not that hard!
The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10c
