Monday 16 May 2016

Circus Animals

A little follow up on the previous post about the weasel and the collider, CERN told a news agency the following:
“We are pretty sure this was caused by a small animal,” a press officer for the LHC told NPR. “A weasel, probably.”

Indeed, the remains of a fried animal were found on the grounds outside the LHC, close to a cable that had been gnawed through.
I have checked the first two pages of Google’s search results regarding the news of this event and none of the websites have asked: Why or How?

They just accept what they were told to be true.

The event in 2009 with a bird that managed to drop a piece a bread in just the right spot to cause a problem, although no bird was spotted and in fact CERN themselves are not particularly sure what caused the power cut, read their own news article

Two events in a eight year time span and they are out in the countryside after all.

Why is it that the press accepts what they are told to be true, why is it that nobody asked any questions?

Is this what today’s press are now like, report what they are told and nothing more.

I wonder if this is an isolated incident.

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