Such is the angst that the American Nobel prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has even had death threats, said Prof Brian Cox of Manchester University, adding: «Anyone who thinks the LHC will destroy the world is a twat.»
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Others are more aggressive. «There are a number who say: «You are evil and dangerous and you are going to destroy the world.»
Telegraph – Scientists get death threats over Large Hadron Collider
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