Pack up the Bunsen burners and power down the computers because Science Is Dying! This wonderfully nonsensical claim is thanks to Daniel Henninger of the Wall Street Journal. Bearing in mind the WSJ is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, who also run that beacon of respectable truth-telling, Fox News, Mr Henninger appears to have skillfully observed that *gasp* scientists are human! I know, I was shocked too. Here I was thinking that they were specially cloned in gleaming tanks to be unfeeling, thinking machines. But no, they’re normal, every day people like you and me. You might even have touched one once without realising it. Terrifying stuff (the geeks over at /. have a typically rambling discussion of the article up if you’re interested).

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